Re: [jboske] carving the lo'e debate into shape (was: RE: My last will and

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> How can lo'e cinfo inhabit but not be captured.
> Or maybe it can be captured, but not by one person?

That sounds plausible. The typical California condor was captured, for
example; the typical Przewalski's wild horse is in captivity but has not
been captured.

> Can the typical lion be captured? And if it can, by whom?

Well, let's suppose that there are lion-capturers. (I have no idea, really.)
If so, then it would be fair to say that the typical lion-capturer
captures the typical captured lion. We haven't talked about sentences
with two lo'e instances before, AFAIK.

> Also, would you say something like this makes sense with
> your {lo'e}:
> 
> le friko cu se xabju so'i xanto e lo'e cinfo
> Africa is inhabited by many elephants and by the typical lion.

I have no problem with it, since sentences with ".e" are defined by
expanding to two sentences.

> I think we can agree that that one is {lo fadni be fi lo'i cinfo}.

Good.

> >mi nitcu pa le tanxe selcmi poi seltisna lei cukta
> 
> Do you mean {pa lu'a le tanxe selcmi}?

Yes. I wrote "lu'a le'i" and then changed "le'i" to "le", inadvertently
removing "lu'a" as well.

> Also, do you really mean that {lei cukta cu tisna le selcmi}?

Granted that "tisna" might make them too heavy to carry, why not?

> I will still have to ask, which set of boxes are you talking
> about? And are you sure there is one and only one member
> of that set such that you need that box and no other? How
> do I identify the one box, once I've somehow managed to
> identify the set?

"lu'a" means "a member, some member". As long as it belongs to the
right set, I don't care which box I get.

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