[lojban-beginners] Re: Heath is the Man!.

["Heath N. Caldwell" <hncaldwell@csupomona.edu>]

On 2006-01-06 18:53, Matt Arnold wrote:
> It depends on what you mean by that. Your sentence literally means
> Heath is the same as one male humanoid person. It would be a bad habit
> to use "mintu" as a substitute for "is." To get into a Lojbanic frame
> of mind you must leave behind the need for the word "is." For
> instance, if you want to say "Heath is a male humanoid person" you can
> just say {xit. nanmu}.

Ah, but I am not saying that Heath is A man.  I am saying Heath is THE
man.

It is not sufficient to just describe Heath as being an exemplar of a
group.  The purpose is to say that there is one and only one "The man",
and that Heath is he.

Plus I am just joking around.

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Heath Caldwell
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