Re: TECH: Logical connectors (was Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu)

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

la dilyn cusku di'e
> Still somewhat confused about this.  If there's more than one logical
> connector in the sentence, the order of expansion might matter and it
> must be done left to right, yes?  e.g.:
>       le nanmu .e le ninmu cu viska le nanlu .a le nixla
                                         nanla       nixli


>       Each of (the man and the woman) watches one of (the boy and
>               the girl)
> so they might watch different things; while in
>       le nanlu .a le nixla cu se viska le nanmu .e le ninmu
> they must both be watching the _same_ thing (boy or girl), yes?

Right.  (They might be watching both, but in any case, they both watch
the same thing.)

>
> This also happens with quantifiers:
>       le ci nanmu bevri lo tanxe
                   ^cu

> vs.
>       lo tanxe cu se bevri le ci nanmu
> In the first they might have different boxes, while in the second they
> all carry a single box (in three seperate events).  (Or they might all
> carry more than one box).
>
> {je'a xu?}

i ja'a

co'o mi'e xorxes