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John:
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > * How on earth would you say "Lions have four legs"? According to you,
> > {lo'e cinfo cu se janbe be vo da} means "Exactly four things are legs of
> > lions".
>
> No, that's quite correct (reading "tuple" for "janbe"). But the da's
> in question are, of course, typical lion-legs. In general, the parts
> of a lo'e are themselves going to be lo'e.
Change the example to {lo'e prenu cu se rirni pa ninmu}, which you say
would mean "Exactly one woman is characteristically mother of people",
and your get-out fails.
But anyway, I don't accept your get-out. If da tuple, then da is a leg
of something. And CLL lo'e is not something; it is logically some sort
of generalization-making quantifier.
Perhaps you think of lo'e broda as something like Mr Typical Broda,
Mr Thing-that-has-no-properties-but-those-that-are-typical-of-brodadom.
In that case, I will retract what I said, and agree with you, but I
would point out that "I know that lo'e cinfo cu xabju le friko"
would mean "Lions are generally known by me to live in Africa". And
that is much much less useful than a quantifier-based analysis of
lo'e, which has much greater expressive potential.
--And.