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

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

On 1/7/06, Heath N. Caldwell <hncaldwell@csupomona.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Heath Caldwell

Interesting. I'm not sure I know how. Perhaps "Heath is the typical
man" or "Heath is the stereotypical man." I would use "lu'e" and
"le'e" for that, but I think that would involve making the cmevla a
selbri. That's not allowed, is it?

-epkat