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la nitcion cusku di'e
I seek a senator: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore I seek two senators: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore I seek every senator: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore
What we've done in these cases is:
I seek a senator: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore (pamei)
I seek two senators: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore remei
I seek every senator: mi sisku leka ce'u turnrsenatore romei
({le ka ce'u remei fo lo'i turnrsenatore}, to use the ugly
place structure of mei.)
xod had his "Lojban is fucked" moment with quantifier ordering. I've resisted that long and hard, with all my compromise and fundamentalism and kludges. But this is my Rubicon: the current understanding of sisku must be destroyed. I don't know what will replace it, and I still don't like Mr Shark replacing it, but we were bozos to put in the lambda.
I agree that the current sisku is ugly, but Mr Shark works
the same way as properties as far as quantification goes.
We will still be looking for Mr Shark Remei.
I wonder whether {lo re broda} can do this job under
the 2nd Excellent Solution.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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