Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

> Because an indented volume with a cap is not the same as an indented
> volume without a cap. The one, the `cave with a door', is a `botpi';
> the other, the `natural cave', is a `kevna'.

Then isn't the bottle by the side of the road a kevna, making this whole
discussion of it and whether botpi fo noda is a botpi irrelevant since we
can just call it a kevna?

You could call it a kevna. Or you could use a mechanism mentioned in
the discussion to indicate that it could have a cap and use the word
botpi. 

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