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on 3/19/03 12:41 PM, Rob Speer at rspeer@hidden.email wrote:
> 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.
More I look into it, the rarer it seems, true.
(waitress to guy looking at menu)
Zi vol kwa? What do you want?
Possible replies:
Zi xwa. You choose. (Anything)
Bu (matter) It doesn't matter. (What's a good word for 'matter'?)
Kulda bon. All are good, okay.
Kulda seym. All same.
Kulda kwalsa bon. All equally good.
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