Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la lojbab cusku di'e

> I don't see why "botpi fo noda" doesn't work.

A toy airplane, a soccer football and a banana are all instances
of {lo botpi be fo noda}, they are all members of {lo'i botpi be
fo no da}. (That is not what we usually mean by "a bottle without
a cap" in English.)

> It actually DOES have a cap,
> potentially (as do most botpi), but there is no cap on it.

If it actually DOES have a cap, then it is a {botpi be fo
ba'e su'o da}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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