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xod:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Jordan DeLong wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:17:36PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > > Book says explicitly that ti is only used for finger pointables; I need
> > > something abstract
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by "something abstract". But it's usable
> > for anything which has distance from the speaker (conceptually)
> > The book goes out of its way to say that you don't need to be
> > face-to-face for this to work. All the "finger pointing" stuff is
> > just a metaphor
>
> "...they cannot refer to things that cannot be pointed at."
So they're unlike English "this/that" but like, say, "yay" ("it
was yay big"). I've used "lo'e vi co'e", which is longer than
"ti", but not open to the same objections.
--And.