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I wrote:
> QUANTIFIERS are all underlyingly of the form {N fi'u D}.
> If D is {ro(PA)} then Q means "N out of all PA things that are broda"
> If D is not {ro(PA)} then ro is still the number of things that
> are broda, but Q means "N in every D things that are broda"
>
> Q can be expanded to
> ( N / D ) * (ro)C
> "N in every D of all C=ro things that are broda."
>
> .... but I'm not sure how best to Lojban that
I forgot to cover quantification over nths of things, e.g. over
apple halves. A solution is to allow N itself to be a fraction:
( ( Nn / Nd ) / D ) * (ro)C
I still have no suggestions about how to lexicalize it.
--And.