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

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Jorge Llambias wrote:

> What would you use as [sumti]? In {le mlatu du ma}, the
> speaker already has to know which cat they mean.

I think that in a clarifying question, "le" need not imply that the speaker
knows; it is probably enough if the listener (the original speaker) does.

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