Re: [lojban] specificity of 'ma'

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/4/2001 8:39:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:

>Maybe we need {la mas} to insist on a name.

{la mo} works. But "who" doesn't insist on a name.
"The butler" will do as an answer, but not "a butler"
(unless it's one of those cases where it is specific,
"a certain butler").

Will {la mo} guarantee a name? Yes, name is neither necessary nor sufficient
and {lo} won't usually work ("a certain" is an English quantifier trick, not
specific -- or is it definite? -- outside of certain special cases -- nothing
seems to work like it in Lojban --- though I did try.)