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RE: [jboske] Re: gadri paradigm: 2 excellent proposals



Jordan:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:33:47PM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> [...]
> > But I wonder whether it would not be worthwhile to grant the 
> > equivalence {lo ka ce'u mlatu} = {lo'i mlatu}... 
> 
> i) "lo ka" is semantically wrong.  "le ka" is correct 

"lo ka" and "le ka" are both semantically correct. There's a
legitimate argument about which is the best choice pragmatically,
but we've already had that argument. (In the gadri paradigm that 
I and Jorge like, I'd say "lo ka". In the paradigm that Nick likes, 
I'd say "loi ka".)

--And.