[lojban-beginners] Re: le vs lo, round 983749587345 (was Re: Problems with using vowel ending sequences as cmavo?)

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 00:04, Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> You wouldn't use "lo" in a situation where the referent is not literally and
> exactly the sort of thing that goes in the brivla place you're using as a
> description.  If you were talking about a plastic apple, you could call it
> "le plise" or you could call it "lo slasi" (a plastic thing), but you
> wouldn't say "lo plise" because that would imply falsely that the thing you
> are referring to is actually an apple.

Alas, I'm not sure this is true. (If it were, it would be a great
explanation.) But one can correctly say {lo slasi plise} to refer to a
plastic apple. And in a paragraph, you could introduce the apple with
{lo slasi plise} and refer to it subsequently with the shorter {lo
plise}.

Chris Capel
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