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Re: [jboske] so, singulatives...



On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote:

> I will essay a full reply later.
>
> In the meantime, though, I would ask what accommodation is made for
> people who see the prototype as basic, and who see different dogs as
> different avatars of Dog?



This is a meaningless statement. We agree that lo'e gerku is a single, and
Mr. Dog is a single. The question is how the speaker arrived at the
qualities of it. Therefore, the "Mr. Dog" reading is redundant to whatever
Nick's dealing with which you think is not "Mr. Dog". Let me know if I
made absolutely no sense and I'll re-express it in Lojban.



> The stuff about myopic singularization and squinting is meant to show
> how if your starting point is a many-membered extension, you can work
> your way to the single prototype. But I think lo'e should just mean that
> single prototype. It will thereby cater to those who take prototypes to
> be basic, and those who don't can apply squinting to get to the
> prototype. (Very possibly I hadn't made this clear enough, but that
> was partly because I had been so unsuccessful in explaining the
> notion of prototype-as-basic.)
>
> In contrast, you want to insist on squinting as intrinsic to lo'e, insisting
> that lo'e broda can only be the product of squinting -- i.e. a derived
> rather than primitive concept.
>
> I see this as an unwarranted metaphysical bias.


Which leaves the meaning too loose. Look at the different ways to arrive
at a single entity: they are too different to represent with a single
cmavo. In fact, we have two cmavo to play with, so let's select the two
most useful which are also close enough to the corpus, and assign them to
lo'e and le'e, and be done with it.




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