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In a message dated 8/9/2005 10:08:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, rmay@hidden.email writes:
What I've done is clarify that ci/ca/cu are demonstrative pronouns and that their here, there, ci - this ca - that (near the person addressed) cu - that over there, yonder (remote from both the speaker and the person addressed) If you're going to give clarification for 'that' vs. 'that yonder', then it might be helpful to include a similar clarification for 'this', something like "near the speaker". I am glad to see that you are using the deictic clarifications of these demonstratives. Lojban (and Loglan before it, IIRC) seems to use strictly distance from speaker, which is ambiguous at best. stevo |