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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:46:54PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
[...]
> A few hours ago, Jorge wrote
>
> i na vajni fa le du'u makau catra la lauras
> It doesn't matter who killed Laura.
>
>
> Had we an identity abstractor Q, with lambda ce'u, then we could have said
> {na vajni fa le Q ce'u catra ly.} We weren't given one, which is why I use
> {su'u ce'u broda keibe lo kamse'i}.
That would mean "The person who killed laura is not important". It
would not mean "It is not important who killed laura".
Identity abstract is nice (and we apparently have 3 proposed ways
to do it: seka, poi'i, jaika), but it's not what you mean.
[...]
> So jaika is like the seka, which is actually pretty useless, since it does
> not provide identity (at best it, like every selbri, allows us to
> narrow-down the range of possibly sumti) and usually is used by people
> desiring jei. (I can expound on that last point if needed.)
I don't understand that at all. What does se/te/ve ka have to do
with jei?
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