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RE: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimental cmavo
At 10:54 PM 9/28/01 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
John:
> Invent Yourself wrote:
> > no'u probably works like you think goi already does:
> >
> > ko'a goi la djan. .i li'o .i la fred. no'u ko'a
> > ko'a is John. Fred is John.
>
> By no means: saying "ko'a no'u la djan." is bogus if ko'a is not
> *already* defined. The whole point of goi (and cei) is their
> defining nature.
But you seem to be failing to recognize that ko'a, like cmene,
do not have to be defined by goi. They can get their referent
from context.
English: It is big.
Lojban: ko'a barda
In neither case must it or ko'a have an antecedent in previous
utterances.
This may be the case in present Lojban, but when ko'a and goi were defined,
ko'a was expected to always be explicitly defined with goi at first
use. Other usage was *allowed* but at the risk of confusion if nonsense
resulted.
lojbab
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