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RE: [jboske] Re: big rethink on Unique and other gadri

At 02:21 AM 12/26/02 +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote: 
> I would imagine that there are a couple of UI discursives already in the
> language that would convey -specific

You're talking the "generalising" UI? But that's discoursal. I think it
would be perilously ambiguous for this purpose

Discursive UIs will have different implications attached to different words. I was actually thinking of da'i most, but I'm wary about proposing lots of suggestions, because we probably have so many different ideas about the word meanings (and I don't claim to really know the problem that you are trying to solve here - the abstruse language and the examples don't seem to clarify things for me); I know that the discursives have seen usage, and I also know that I left them vague so as to minimize malglico knowing that I relied too much on English in the first place to establish what sorts of discursives were needed. People want them nailed down more firmly, so we need to look at how each would be interpreted in several key grammatical positions where discursives tend to be attached.

(I hope your modus operandi will include getting trial definitions done for the 90% of the language that is less controversial, and we then will have a better feel for what tools we have to solve problems in the more controversial areas.)

lojbab

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