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[lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly)
>> Certainly. However, "mi djica le mikce" means the same thing. The only
>> difference is that lo mikce must have an md, le mikce could be anyone I
>> want to call a doctor. Lo and le do not mark for definition.
>The definition of "mikce" says nothing about MDs. To be lo mikce, one has
to
>treat some patient for some illness using some treatment.
Curse my overreliance on glosses.
>"le" does mark for definiteness; the speaker has someone in mind (but does
not
>necessarily expect the hearer to know who it is) who may not exactly be a
>doctor.
My recollection is that the Book states that le and lo only differ in
veridiciality. 'lo mikce' could be any doctor, no? So can't 'le mikce' be
any doctor?