Re: [jboske] Needed boxes (was: lo'ie != lo'ei)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> If "mi speni lo ninmu" is the best you can say, then you couldn't pick
> your wife out of a lineup.

If that's *all* he can say, then yes.

> Similarly, asking with "mi nitcu lo mikce" is
> perfectly valid, because without further specification any doctor is
> acceptable. 

Not at all. Without further specification, there is *some* doctor that
is acceptable, but there is no saying which one it is. If you say
"mi nitcu lo mikce", then the only way to falsify this is if you
reject *every* doctor as not the one you need.

-- 
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is 
dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously 
overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category.
--Alan King