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Lojbab:
> >I see what you're also doing is saying:
> >
> >{le} is +specific -veridical
> >{lo} is -specific +veridical
> >
> >If we had a -specific -veridical, we'd have the solution to our
> >problems
>
> I would imagine that there are a couple of UI discursives already in the
> language that would convey -specific,
I don't think so. The best hope would be to use something like {kau} that
is known to be a meaningless diacritic.
> and if the only point is to address
> possibly non-existent things like unicorns, I don't see why leda'i -unicorn
> doesn't convey that
The BF will have to rule on whether this (ab)use of da'i that has been
established through usage is official.
Addressing possibly nonexistent things like unicorns is not the only
point, but that is not to say that Intensional gadri don't have
Intensionalless paraphrases.
--And.