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Re: ce'u



(apologies to xorxes for repeat)
In a message dated 8/3/2001 3:24:22 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:



la xod cusku di'e

>However, the problem may be worse than you state. Page 259, ex. 4.4:
>
>    le ka do xunre cu cnino mi
>    the property-of your being-red is new to me.
>
>Where is your ce'u there? In a place that's already filled!

That should have been:

    le nu do xunre cu cnino mi

We should not use {ka broda} just because broda happens to be
an adjective in English.




Surely the right thing to say here, but there is (for loopholing) the
position that closed property abstracts are properties of worlds or some such
things (which turns out to be dangerously close to event abstracts, in fact).