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Jorge Llamb�as, On 30/08/2012 03:20:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:08 PM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:Jorge Llamb�as, On 30/08/2012 02:34:See: http://xorban.wordpress.com/grammar/forgot to ask: What are marked-argument b& binary operators d& m?b- adds an agent argument (originally it was g-, but then we changed to b- to make it more distinct from k-, but I think Mike kept using g- in the ju-essay.) d is a binder for names (Lojban "la"), and m- was proposed as the quantifier "many" although we haven't said anything much about it yet.
If it was me proposed "many", I meant it just as an example of a fractional quantifier (along with "three out of every four" and so forth), and because the range of fractions is openended, I had in mind a triadic predicate "X% of things with property Y have property Z", or else a ternary operator. As for d-, why is it not a unary operator, analogous to the new "ne", that encodes that its [I really want to say "complement" here!] dependent is onomastic? --And.