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[Nice on the big digest-style stuff, Nick. Helps keep the volume down] On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:29:04AM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote: [...] > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 06:20:02PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > >> la nitcion cusku di'e > > [...] > >>> After all (as I found in CLL to my > >>> delight), prenexes by default go to the innermost, not the outermost > >>> bridi --- so the default interpretation of {mi nitcu lenu mi tavla lo > >>> mikce} *is* "I want to talk to a doctor, any doctor", not "there's > >>> this > >>> particular doctor I want to talk to". > >> > >> Yes, and you can say {mi nitcu tu'a lo mikce} for short. If you are > >> satisfied with that, you don't have a problem to solve. > > > > Ok, good point. So this issue isn't really an issue afterall. > > ... If propositionalism covers everything. Like I said, by the time you > get to depiction, I doubt it does. I think depiction is a different issue, though: Using prototype-style lo'e (which I could maybe live with, though I think the statistical one is better): ti pixra da poi simsa lo'e since ti pixra lo simsa be lo'e since works, I think. And probably better: ti pixra lo ckaji be leka since or ti pixra lo ckaji be lesi'o since And finally, for *real* usage: ti since pixra -- Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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