Re: [jboske] loi'e & truthconditions (was: RE: carving the lo'e debate intoshape

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> As for Central+Southern Africa, wouldn't we rather want a
> {joi} than a {ja}?

Yes.

> Those lions are outliers only insofar as their mode of inhabiting
> is weird, not because they inhabit somewhere sparsely populated.

Well, I think either kind of atypicality -- rarity or weirdness -- will serve.

> But is it because they are too few, or because their way of living
> is just too weird to be called a living?

Here it is definitely weirdness. Antarctica has no permanent residents;
nobody is indigenous to Antarctica; nobody is domiciled in Antartica.
When someone goes there, it does not count as going home.

> confidence that lo'e remna doesn't live in some island in the
> Pacific with a similar population to Antarctica but with
> generations of tradition? 

Montserrat's population (in the Caribbean) is about the same size
as Antartica's (during summer), but clearly they are not outliers.

> Maybe what you mean is that lo'e remna doesn't
> live in Antarctica in the same way that it lives everywhere
> else? It doesn't have deep roots there? I can agree with that.

No roots at all, in fact.

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