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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:54:55AM -0500, Martin Bays wrote:
> * Thursday, 2011-12-01 at 08:03 -0800 - Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:
> 
> 
> > or {ti botpi lo canlu}, I'm going to be pretty annoyed.
> 
> I don't think it's gluteal. With {vasru} it clearly would be, but it
> often isn't important to a nu kabri that the se kabri be interesting.

Yes, that was *exactly* my point when I said:

> > If it was up to me, I'd define certain places as being ka'e-able:
> > that is, "this place is normally filled by X [where in the case of
> > botpi X would be "what the bottle currently contains"], but even if
> > there is no current or obvious X, the capability is sufficient for
> > the semantics of this word; zi'o should only be used if the
> > capability has been lost".

As currently defined, a kabri is only a kabri if it contains
something; "contains vacuum" or "contains air" are both dodging the
question, IMO, especially the former.  So I think we should
canonicalize the whole "this place doesn't have to be interesting"
thing you just said.

-Robin

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