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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, MorphemeAddict@w... wrote: > In a message dated 8/9/2005 10:08:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, rmay@m... > writes: > > > > What I've done is clarify that ci/ca/cu are demonstrative pronouns and that > > their here, there, > > yonder meanings are secondary. > > > > > > 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. > Quite right. Will do. Yes, I decided on the three-way early on. Then later I got that mixed up with vi va vu (at, near, far) which is something else entirely:)