And,
As I read it, xorlo "le" and "la" are pretty much the same as in CLL, except for default quantification.
In CLL around 6.2.6 I understand that a name (a cmene or a la sumti) is an arbitrary identifier, attached to something by the act of naming, instead of by reference to dictionary meanings and observation.
`` The last descriptor of this section is “la”, which indicates that the selbri which follows it has been dissociated from its normal meaning and is being used as a name. Like “le” descriptions, “la” descriptions are implicitly restricted to those I have in mind. ''
In the original translation of "the Cowardly Lion" as "la tolvirnu cinfo", for example, this identification is used because the critter is cowardly and he is a lion, it's not some kind of CB handle.
None of the "la" expressions I'm concerned about ever get used with a vocative.
They are descriptive phrases that seem to me to be very standard cases for using "le".
We should write "le xamgu termakfyfetsi", "le smani", "le rijno cutci", etc.
Is there a variety of lojban where this is not the case?
la bremenli
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 2:20:30 AM UTC-8, And Rosta wrote:On 26 Nov 2017 16:36, <vpbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
One substantive global kind of change was made.
Among all the uses of "la", there were many cases where it is followed by a verb phrase, and where the _expression_ is not at all a name, but a description, for example "la tolvirnu cinfo".
All such non-names got "la" replaced with "le".That looks a deleterious change, unless post-xorlo "le" has been completely redefined from what it formerly was. The original "la" captures properly the English, whereas semitraditional "le" does not at all. (By "semitraditional" I mean to exclude the habitual solecistic misuse that prevailed in early Lojban writing, where "le" was used as the default gadri, with sillinesses such as "le nu".)--And.--
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