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xod:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > xod:
> > > da is often used to refer to specific entities that the speaker has in
> > > mind, and of which the speaker wants to assert the existence, and wants
> > > to assign a variable
> >
> > As far as sentential meaning goes, {da} never refers to a specific entity
> > But it is true that I can say things like "I have a son", and when I
> > say that I do have my son in mind, even though "a son" does not refer
> > to him
>
> When you say "I have a son", you're not referring to your own son?
No. I'm not being bloody-minded or counterintuitive here, either.
"I am a father" = "I have a child" = "mi patfu da" = "na ku mi patfu no da"
These just say that there is something/someone that is my child,
or, equivalently, that it is untrue that there is nothing/noone that
is my child.
--And.