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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote:
> > To summarize:
> > * We *do* need Unique.
>
> I do not think that Unique glosses as "typical", so be aware that we are
> breaking from the CLL.
No; all this means is that unique can't be "lo'e".
Now; here's my thing: I don't understand how this unique stuff
makes any real sense. Basically the idea I'm hearing is that for
"loi'e cipni" (or whatever it is) you take lo'i cipni and pretend
there's only only one cipni. However I don't get what defines the
characteristics of this one thing, and I don't think anyone has
said anything about this. If the answer is "whatever the speaker
wants", then I think all this uniquification stuff is useless because
it adds nothing to a simpler explaination of "whatever the speaker
wants", and we'd actually want xorxes' "lo'ei" gadri which basically
has the whatever-the-speaker-wants definition, as far as I understand.
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