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Re: [lojban-beginners] Possessives





On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 18:35:18 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   Which does bring in an interesting philosophic question (which maybe
> Annie was alluding to): If you used vo'a in that sentence, what would it
> refer to? la djan? le bruna be la lizbet (which is what I assume you meant
> to write, not "brata") or both? ("fa la djan. klama le ckule fa le bruna pe
> la lizbet. lo zdani be vo'a")  But that's outside the scope of a beginner's
> list.

Yes of course "bruna". "brata" is Tok Pisin. I consider the referent of "vo'a"
in that sentence unclear.

Doesn't a double-FA evaluate to something like {la .djan. ju'e le brata pe la .lizbet. klama le ckule}? I'm not certain that's the right connective, btw.
 

  I would agree with that.  I think it's kind of ironic to express uncertainty of a a word with vague meaning, though.  Doesn't vagueness subsume uncertainty?
                   --gejyspa
 

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