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la and cusku di'e
> CLL-lo'e must involve some scope-sensitive typicality operator.
> In that case, we would say "lo'e cinfo is intestinated by something short",
> but not "something short intestinates lo'e cinfo".
OK, that makes more sense.
In that case, CLL-lo'e (lo'e1) could perhaps be defined in terms
of Kind-lo'e (lo'e2) as something like:
lo'e1 broda = lo'e2 broda na'oku
CLL-lo'e = Kind plus typicality.
If so, isn't the restricted CLL-lo'e a waste of cmavo? A Kind-lo'e could
include CLL-lo'e and easily and accurately specify its restricted
application with {na'o} when so required:
lo'e cinfo na'o xabju le friko
Lions typically live in Africa.
mi pu viska lo'e cinfo bu'u na'ebo le friko
I saw lions outside of Africa.
> > In my view, lo'e kumte is sometimes female and sometimes male, sometimes
> > it has one hump and sometimes two (and other times none). In many context
> > the question is irrelevant. It is like asking "what does John Cowan hold
> > in his hand?". It varies with context, and in many contexts it is
> > irrelevant.
>
> OK, but this boils down to saying "In my view, {lo'e} = Kind". Which is
> fair enough, but not really pertinent to interrogating the intent of
> CLL-lo'e.
Right. It's just that CLL-lo'e was being touted as "Mister", which it
is not. It can only be used for what "Mister" is or does typically.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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