Re: USAGE: Latin alphabet (Re: Chinese Dialect Question)

Pavel Iosad <edricson@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> > The reversed E is used in the Pan-Nigerian
> > alphabet,
>
> It is also supposed to come in handy for maths, no? Or is a separate
> slot allocated to the existence operator (or whatever it'd be called in
> English)
    "existential quantifier"

ObConlang:  In Gladilatian "There exists X" is simply "U X."  "U" is a noun
(or pronoun -- They're not distinguished in Glad.) meaning "something", so
"U X." is "Something is X." or "There's an X.".  You could also say, "Lou
X.", if you want to emphasize that X is not fictional or potential.  "Lou"
is "real thing" or "actual thing".  "U X.", like the English "There's an X."
is often implicitly relative, e.g. "There's an X in the place we've been
discussing.", whereas "Lou X." refers to absolute existence.

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