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Re: ***RO*** lo'e cinfo cu xabju le friko



cu'u la .and.

The problem: to capture the difference between:

1. The lion lives in Africa. = A lion typically lives in Africa.
2. I study the lion. != A lion typically is studied by me.

A bogus problem with a bogus solution. lo'e X broda != lo X ta'e broda ; and the equivalences you draw for English are irrelevant to Lojban. This is an attempt to make prototypes non-unique for no better reason than a spurious copying of English, and I reject it with extreme prejudice.

--
  Dr Nick Nicholas,        nickn@hidden.email     French/Italian,
  http://www.opoudjis.net                   University of Melbourne
  "There is a danger, my dear Neophron, that they will go further, and
   conceive a contempt for the stress-accent as something very trivial,
   and will decree that any group of words of any kind is a verse."
  --- Maximos Planudes, predicting free verse and worse, late xiii AD.