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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@hidden.email> > wrote: > >> > Also, how could one say "John, Alice, but not Bob carried the panel" >> > using >> > jVk- operators? >> >> I think you could just say "la je jeka ... na..." for that case, > > Wouldn't that be the union of John, Alice and the not-Bob? That would be "jeka jeka" rather than "je jeka". >> but >> "all the students except Bob" is more complicated. > > Yes I fear that our quantifiers and coordinators are incomplete. I think we should start by saying it with predicates, and then see if they can have a short operator form. I suppose something like "x1 is/are exceptions to x2 being x3". co ma'a xrxe