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Re: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component



la and cusku di'e

> le mo mlatu i le blabi mlatu
> Which cat? The white cat.
>
> lo mo mlatu i lo blabi mlatu
> What kind of cat? A white cat.

I don't think this necessarily works, except as a convention that
exceeds the grammar's stipulations. Specifically, the problem is
that when discussing "le mlatu", you might want to ask what kind
of cat it is, and not all relevant answers to that question will
tell you which cat is being referred to.

But that would be {le mlatu cu mo}, or {le mlatu cu ckaji ma}.
I was not so much concerned about how to get the "what kind?"
question as the "which?", and {le mo} has to mean "which?"
because of {le}'s specificity. It can't mean "what kind?".

co'o mi'e xorxes


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