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Date: Thu Dec 12 11:56:29 1991
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From: Major <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!major>
Subject:      Meaning of 'la'
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If I understand John's answer to my previous query, the word 'la' is
ambigious between "the thing named by the string ..." and "the thing
named by the predicate ...". IE:

        la lojbab

could mean the thing named by the sound 'lohzbahb' (presumably a sound
borrowed from another language) or the thing named "logical soap".

Major