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Re: [lojban] observatives & a construal of lo'e & le'e



In a message dated 11/8/2001 9:52:44 PM Central Standard Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


What *would* you use? Remember that the selbri has to be cuktrodisi
(or "me la odisix") -- plain "la odisix" is a copout.


Given your discussion, I would have thought that {la odisix}  (yuck, ptui!) would have been the perfect thing for the prototytpe and {me la odisix} for "is a version of the Odyssey," so {lo me la odisix} for "a version of the Odyssey"  You want an individual for the prototype and this is as close as you can get to that, and {me} is just about perfect for "is a version of."  Only {lai} could look better than {la}, and there I fear we may have oversold the mass-prototype, so that simple prototypes can't work anymore (without a lot of reeducation -- which And might better be doing than trying to make yet another prototype word in Lojban).