WikiDiscuss

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:47:14PM -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>As I recall, gadri were rightly regarded as a big mess, and
> >>intension/extension problems were one contributing factor to that.
> >>It doesn't seem reasonable that what we all considered such a
> >>disaster could be fixed by just a tiny change in default quantifiers
> >>and {lo} and such.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Just for the recond, this is *not* a tiny change. Removing all
> >default quantifiers is, in fact, a huge change.
> >
> >It's just a change that seems to have a tiny *impact*. Different
> >thing.
>
> Mmm. Good point. Pondering the hugeness of the change is something I
> need to do. But the question remains: if the impact is tiny, then in
> what sense does it fix the big problem? That is, the prior text,
> written under a "buggy" system, presumably needs some more serious
> repair than a "tiny" impact.

Show me:

1. Prior text that uses "lo broda" to mean something other than "broda
in general".

and/or

2. Prior text that uses inner quantifiers on lo.

AFAICT, those ore the only cases that change. There aren't many of
them (i.e. basically none).

> I think the first difficulty I have is the same one you pointed out,
> Robin: "some particular cat" and "Mr. Cat" are sufficiently different
> critters that they deserve different gadri

There are: lo pa mlatu versus lo mlatu. Unless I'm missing something.

I'm pretty sure I understand xorxes' proposal just fine, it's his
comments here that confused me.

-Robin