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Re: [jboske] ROI, quantification, and xorlo



On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:08:16PM -0300, Jorge Llamb�as wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@hidden.email> wrote:
> >
> > I refer to the discussion on http://www.lojban.org/lists/jboske/msg00363.html .
> >
> > How does/should ROI work when the tagged sumti is a sumti headed by
> > the new version of lo, where there are no default quantifiers? It seems
> > that the total number of recurrences would be undefined.
> >
> > Is this a problem?
> 
> I would say {pa roi ro cacra} is "once in every hour".

Yes, but there is no xorlo in there, so there is no problem.

> I suppose {pa roi lo cacra} as "once an hour" with a generic hour,
> would also work.

How do we know it's not "once during an unspecified number of hours"?

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