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> I would say: {mi nitcu lo'e tanxe lo nu setca
> lei vi cukta ty i e'o ko cpagau mi ty}.
I don't know how to supply you with the typical box, any more than I
can capture the typical lion. That is, mi kavbu lo'e cinfo is false,
and by the same token mi cpacu lo'e tanxe is false too.
How can lo'e cinfo inhabit but not be captured.
Or maybe it can be captured, but not by one person?
Can the typical lion be captured? And if it can, by whom?
Also, would you say something like this makes sense with
your {lo'e}:
le friko cu se xabju so'i xanto e lo'e cinfo
Africa is inhabited by many elephants and by the typical lion.
It occurs to me that some confusion may be caused by taking "lo'e cinfo" to mean not "the typical lion" but "a typical lion", that is an actual lion which closely resembles in relevant ways the abstract typical lion.
I think we can agree that that one is {lo fadni be fi lo'i cinfo}.
> If you say: {mi nitcu le tanxe lo nu setca
> lei vi cukta ty i e'o ko cpagau mi ty}, I will
> ask "which box is it that you're talking about?"
Right enough. But I specify not a tanxe, but a tanxe selcmima; a
variety of box, in fact, as the object of my desires.
mi nitcu pa le tanxe selcmi poi seltisna lei cukta
Do you mean {pa lu'a le tanxe selcmi}?
Also, do you really mean that {lei cukta cu tisna le selcmi}?
I will still have to ask, which set of boxes are you talking
about? And are you sure there is one and only one member
of that set such that you need that box and no other? How
do I identify the one box, once I've somehow managed to
identify the set?
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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