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Wiki page How to use xorlo changed by rlpowell

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> - * There are no default quantifiers. At all.
> For example, the default outer quantifier of
> "lo" used to be "su'o", which means "at least
> one", but that is no longer the case. "lo
> cribe" could be one, or a billion, or none
> (although expect listener hostility!!), or the
> idea of bear-ness (as in "bears like honey"),
> or bear goo (as in after a car accident
> involving a really, really big truck).
> + * There are no default quantifiers. At all.
> For example, the default outer quantifier of
> "lo" used to be "su'o", which means "at least
> one", but that is no longer the case. "lo
> cribe" could be one, or a billion, or the idea
> of bear-ness (as in "bears like honey"), or
> bear goo (as in after a car accident involving
> a really, really big truck).

Dropping the "none" provision for {lo cribe}
creates some small problems, particularly in
intensional contexts (as it were). If {mi djica
lo pavyseljirna} is meant to be true and {djica2}
is not to be learned as an unmarked opaque place
-- as xorxes clearly does not want to do — then
the sentence must be able to be true when there
are no unicorns (the extension {i ku'i lo
pavyseljirna na zasti} is compatible with the the
sentence given). On the other hand, of course,
{lo cribe cu danlu} should not be true if there
are bears and none of them are animals. Perhaps
that distinction needs to be noted.