RE: [jboske] lo/le definition

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 08:40 PM 1/8/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> > >But this does not resolve the only unresolved issue, which is whether
> > >"lo blanu" means just "something that is blue" or whether it means 
> "something
> > >that is singulary countably blue". That is, does {lo} force a countable
> > >interpretation on the predicate? I guess Nora would say No
> >
> > I don't even have to ask her to be sure of that
>
> I think there must have been confusion about this at some time, though,
> because we have all that "is an amount of" in the gismu definitions,
> which is unnecessary but seems to imply that at some time the idea
> was that lo *does* force a countable interpretation on the predicate.

Remember that this stuff was written before CLL was even a glimmer in 
Cowan's eye. I was trying to broaden people's considerations of what a 
predicate means, as well as support the lack of an English->Lojban 
dictionary. In this particular wording, I was also copying JCB's style of 
gismu definition (and JCB did not even HAVE a "lo" when he wrote those 
definitions, only the equivalents of "loi" and "le", and he used his loi at 
that point rather sparingly).

lojbab

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