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



John:
> 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.

That's right. {ropa} is "a number that is ro and is pa".

--And.