[lojban-beginners] ti, ta, tu for people?

["Philip Newton" <pnewton@gmx.de>]

coi rodo

Is it correct to use ti, ta, tu for people?

For example, this morning as I was walking to work, I saw someone 
cutting branches off a tree (they had been felling trees and cutting 
branches off others all along the road for the past couple of days, but 
this was the first time I had seen someone in the middle of work). I 
thought "Why is he cutting the branches?"

And then I wondered how to express that in Lojban. My first thought was 
{mu'i ma ta katna le jimca}, but I wasn't sure whether it was proper to 
use {ta} for people.

{ko'a} is, presumably, wrong since it hasn't been bound yet (or would 
it automatically be bound to the "nearest logical thing" or something 
like that?). And {le va prenu} seems a bit long if it can be avoided.

(Hm, looking at the gi'uste, perhaps {ta ka'argau fi le jimca} is 
better than {ta katna le jimca} when the subject is a person.)

mu'o mi'e filip.
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