From sentto-44114-3451-962935198-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri Jul 07 01:58:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 15006 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 01:58:08 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 01:58:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 23690 invoked by uid 40001); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:59 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 23687 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:59 -0000 Received: from mk.egroups.com (207.138.41.165) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 01:59:59 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3451-962935198-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2000 01:59:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 15488 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.193) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 86514 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20000707015957.86513.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.153.103 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:59:57 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.153.103] To: lojban@egroups.com From: "Jorge Llambias" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:59:57 PDT Subject: Re: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit la and cusku di'e > > le mo mlatu i le blabi mlatu > > Which cat? The white cat. > > > > lo mo mlatu i lo blabi mlatu > > What kind of cat? A white cat. > >I don't think this necessarily works, except as a convention that >exceeds the grammar's stipulations. Specifically, the problem is >that when discussing "le mlatu", you might want to ask what kind >of cat it is, and not all relevant answers to that question will >tell you which cat is being referred to. But that would be {le mlatu cu mo}, or {le mlatu cu ckaji ma}. I was not so much concerned about how to get the "what kind?" question as the "which?", and {le mo} has to mean "which?" because of {le}'s specificity. It can't mean "what kind?". co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @Backup- Protect and Access your data any time, any where on the net. Try @Backup FREE and receive 300 points from mypoints.com Install now: http://click.egroups.com/1/6346/4/_/17627/_/962935196/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com