Re: [lojban-beginners] Question about {roda}

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 21 February 2011 18:19, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:13 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using an unbound "da", can one say "ro da noi prenu cu xebni mi" to
>> mean the usual sense of "everyone hates me" (where "everyone" doesn't
>> include "me")?
>
> Why the {da noi prenu} rather then {da poi prenu}? I don't get why one
> would want to use an "unbound {da}" and then use an incidental to
> better specify it.

I would normally use {poi}.

By "unbound" I meant more like "whether everything including me or
everyone but me" rather than "whether or not a person". {noi} doesn't
really "better specify" the referent of {da} any more than describe
what's already been specified or left unspecified by other grammatical
means. The point of my question was that: if {da} can be implicitly
restricted, not only {ro da} should be able to refer to "everyone but
me", but also the choice of {noi} would be just as valid as the
speaker's acknowledged freedom of implication, perhaps even preferable
to its non-incidental counterpart {poi}; if {da} cannot be
contextually restricted, not only {ro da} must include "me" and all
non-persons in every case, but also the incidental description {noi
prenu} would be accordingly incorrect.


> Also, since {mi} is a {prenu} I don't see how this
> would exclude "me" from "everyone".

{noi prenu} has nothing to do with including or excluding "me". It
grammatically neither narrows nor broadens the reference of the sumti
it's attached to. (And this non-restricting behavior becomes
problematic when that sumti is something like {ro da}. Whether or not
{da} can be implicitly restricted determines when {noi} cannot be used
with {ro da}.)

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