Esperanto word order (was: Q-kau)

[Logical Language Group <lojbab>]

la xorxes. cusku di'e

>         Cxiu amas iun.
>         Everybody loves somebody.
> 
>         Iun amas cxiu.
>         Everybody loves somebody.
> 
>         Iu estas amata de cxiu.
>         Somebody is loved by everybody.
> 
>         De cxiu estas amata iu.
>         By everybody, somebody is loved.
> 
> And you can make more combinations. To me it seems that the difference in
> scope is handled by using the participle, like English does, but you can
> still play with the word order.

My reading of this is that the surface order of sumti doesn't matter, whereas
the presence or absence of a "se" conversion does matter.  This is precisely
the notion you say "would be really confusing, and [you] don't see the point
of it" in response to Lojbab.  Now admittedly,

> Esperanto certainly does not claim to reflect predicate logic.

but what's sauce for one might well have some piquancy for the other, no?

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John Cowan		sharing account <lojbab@access.digex.net> for now
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