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Re: Q-kau



>la veion cusku di'e
>
>>   Personally I think that Lojban ought to have available such forms
>>   of quantified sumti that the meaning of a bridi involving these
>>   sumti survives SE conversion, i.e. the distributive properties of
>>   quantifiers ought to be controllable so that a desired distribution
>>   doesn't dictate the ordering of sumti.
>
>There is a way to control it: use the prenex.

Using the prenex with "lo" kinda violates the purpose of "lo" which was to
shorten things and eliminate the need to deal with bound variables.  If it
does not shorten things, I simply use your oft-repeated syllable argument 
against you: "da poi" takes only one more syllable and is much clearer.

lojbab