On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:33 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email> wrote:
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> I assume that the quantifier l in Xorban started as the quantifier version
> of lo, a word with a long and tumultuous history in both Loglan and Lojban.
Yes, they are essentially the same thing.
> So, how is it that cats are black, even though not all of them are and not
> just one is either? If we know the answer to that, maybe we can consider
> how I saw a picture of a green and white polkadotted cat.
Cats are sometimes black and sometimes not, that's all there is to it.
Just like you are sometimes sitting down and sometimes not.
I don't think we have discussed how to say "sometimes" in Xorban yet,
but I think it could be something like this:
la mlta je se sme fe xkra se sme fe na xkra
A/cats(A): [some E: E is state-of-affairs in which black(A)] & [some
E: E is state-of-affairs in which not black(A)]
Green and white polkadotted cats don't exist, but since it's easy to
draw pictures of things that don't exist, there's nothing strange
about seeing a picture of something that doesn't exist.
ma'a xrxe