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Re: [jboske] the one and only - counting and Uniques



Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:

> The quantifier {ropa} (CLL-approved contraction of ro je pa)
> can also be used. It has the advantage over {pa} that it will
> commute with other quantifiers, for example:

I would be happy to use ropa for li and for Mr.  However, it is not
quite ro je pa.

ro -unicorn cu blabi .ije pa -unicorn cu blabi is not synonymous with
ropa -unicorn cu blabi, for the former only entails that there are su'o
unicorns, whereas the latter entails that there are [exactly] pa.

-- 
John Cowan   jcowan@hidden.email  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is 
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously 
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King