On 13 July 2010 05:10, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> Neither of you seem to be familiar with xorlo.
> lo is nonspecific, le is something the speaker has in mind.
> It sounds unusual if you say "le ka" because it's strange to imagine a
> particular kind of hotness the speaker has in mind.
It's a particular tea, so it has a particular hotness.
A particular tea can be hot in a non-particular way (a tea which is particular in its ingredients but not in its temperature), so "a particular hotness" is not a corollary of "a particular tea".
But I can imagine a beverage having a particular hotness, especially if that temperature constitutes a unique sensation of the beverage. Sommeliers say wines are best appreciated at a certain temperature.