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Re: [engelang] Xorban Development



Some miscellaneous comments:

1. I'd like to see unary existential and universal quantifiers, and also a unary counterpart of l- (but see (4)). Particularly with existentials, one doesn't always have any restriction.

2. I'd like to see a ternary quantifier with a fraction argument (where the fraction is "all", "some", "two in every three", "a lot" and so forth).

3. I would allow variables to be implicitly bound, so that "brda" with unbound "a" is short for "za brda", where "z" is unary existential quantifier. This would mean that in "(sa xrma (lu bjrafu vska'aku)) (xkra)", "xkra" is short for "za xkra".

4. Is there a reason why we can't do without {l} -- why an existential quantifier won't suffice? (I expect the answer is Yes, but tell me the reason.)

--And.