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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > But motivationally, people are/should be moved to employ zi'o when the > > place makes no sense in the relationship they are trying to express. If > > the place is there but they don't wish to speak of it (non-teleporting, I > > think) then it's a bit misleading to use zi'o. > > Fair enough for top-level claims, but nevertheless when you talk about > lo'i du'u mi klama le zarci fi zi'o, that set includes lots of propositions > that don't involve teleporting. Likewise, the difference between > lo ka la djan. dunda zo'e ce'u and lo ka la djan. dunda zi'o ce'u is the > difference between being the recipient of a particular, but unspecified, > gift from John and being the recipient of a gift from John. I can't agree with this. Once the gift place is deleted from the relationship, it can't reappear as a zo'e of different scope. I don't know what it means to give without any gift, but whatever it is, that's what John is doing. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();