[lojban-beginners] Re: Special reference, underspecified

[mudri <jammyatjammy@gmail.com>]

Isn't this a situation for {le}, as in {le se pelkre}? As I understand it, {le} makes the listener assume that the speaker is talking about something(s) known, rather than just anything that fits the description. .iepei doi jbocre?

On Monday, 31 December 2012 17:01:01 UTC, neizyn.  wrote:

coi

.i mi'e neizyn.

 

Sorry, I'm just a beginnger! but I was wondering about a special situation.

Suppose there's a group of girls with one guy; I'm talking to one of the girls, and I make a statement referring to the guy without unambiguously referring to him by name or other reference. This is because he's the only person in the group like that. Say he's blonde. Is there a way I can say that "someone is blond" oooooor 'blonde exists/obtains such that x is blonde' ? Better yet, could I use that with some kind of reference? 

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