Re: [lojban] As Kunsunlundz said... [was RE: RECORD:containers]

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> Now
> I suppose the point is that {botpi} doesn't mean "bottle" but something else 
> that amounts to "bottle" in most situations, but in those (often 
> unidentifiable) situations it only means "could-be bottle".  However, lb 
> wisely gave up that basic "could-be" reading explicitly in revising Loglan  

Actually, it didn't.  "Mi patfu" can mean that I am a father, or merely
that I am a potential father: there's a tense to discriminate these.
Likewise, "ta botpi" can be said about a bottle even if it isn't bottling
anything at present, because it can be understood as "That is a potential
bottle".

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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