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Re: [engelang] Xorban Development



Jorge Llamb�as, On 01/09/2012 22:02:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email>  wrote:
The way I'd do this would be with a binary 'union' operator "gV", "gV A B"
= "V is the union of A and B":

la je nmpda ga le sme nnle le sme nxle snga

The problem is that "le sme nnle" and "le sme nxle" are closed
formulas, they don't define any sets to union.

I'm genuinely staggered at my own obtuseness. "Wtf was I thinking", I keep asking myself.

"ga nnla nxla" = "je ri mnika ja nnli nxli je si mnika nnli si mnika
nxli" = "each among A is either boy or girl& some among A is boy&
some among A is girl".

In general:

gV F1 F2 := je ri mnikV ja F1 F2 je si mnikV F1 si mnikV F2

where F1 and F2 are normally expected to both have V as a free variable.

Will "gV F1 gV F2 F3" mean, as we would want, "je ri mnikV ja F1 ja F2 F3 je si mnikV F1 je si mnikV F2 si mnikV F3"?

A crude expansion of "gV F1 gV F2 F3" is:
"je ri mnikV ja F1 je ri mnikV ja F2 F3 je si mnikV F2 si mnikV F3 je si mnikV F1 si mnikV je ri mnikV ja F2 F3 je si mnikV F2 si mnikV F3"
Now, wtf does that mean. Ah, no, I think that doesn't work. It means either everything is F1 or everything is F2 or F3, whereas we want everything to be either F1, F2 or F3.

Let's take a step back. How do we do lists? How do we say "Alice, Bob and Carol arrived"?

Thinking aloud:

ga F1-A F2-A = A is union of group of things that are F1 and group of things that are F2
la ga ''als'a ga ''bob'a ''karl'a klma = "Alice, Bob and Carol went"

la je nmpda ga nnla nxla snga
twelve boys and girls sang

la nxla ga cmla snga
the girls laughed and sang [=some of the girls laughed and some sang]

la csna ga mslfa ma xrxe
me and xorxes discuss

--And.