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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:09:37AM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> How about
> Go vol han kulda. I want one (of, from, out of) everything.
So that phrasing is a lot like Lojban's quantifiers - except that the
"kul" doesn't do anything, because if you just say "I want a thing" ("Go
vol ta da") it has the same meaning - out of all the things there are,
there is one that you want.
Other languages get by with saying "It doesn't matter what", and I think
that would be a reasonable solution. I don't think this usage of "any"
is so common that it requires an article of its own.
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Rob Speer