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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:29 AM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > Unbound V'i are definites, there is a pending unary operator for > definiteness, and there is or can be an ordinary predicate (I'd been using > xx- I think) for it. I'm trying to figure out the meaning of this operator (which we tentatively had assigned to "ne" before), especially with respect to how it works on a formula with more than one free variable, or with no free variables. What does "ne la nnla le nxle tvlake" mean? What does "la nnla le nxle ne tvlake" mean? Does "ne" infuse definiteness to both a and e in both cases? That doesn't seem quite right. Perhaps we need a new consonant that can take a variable (say t-). "t-" would have to operate on a formula with at least one unbound variable, and leave the variable unbound: "la ta nnla le nxle tvlake". Would that work? mu'o mi'e xorxes