[lojban] Re: use of ko'a

[Adam Raizen <araizen@newmail.net>]

de'i li 2003-07-21 ti'u li 08:42:00 la'o zoi. Jordan DeLong .zoi cusku di'e

>> That's not the argument. The argument is that it is grammatical, it has
>> an obvious meaning, and it is useful. Not every sumti place has to be
>
>But I reject that it is useful, since you can get the same use with
>less syllables using existing anaphora.

The thing that you want to talk about was not necessarily already referred
to. If it wasn't then your only other option (other than 'le du') is 
'zo'e', but 'zo'e' is not necessarily specific. Also, if you want to
refer to the same thing again, using 'ko'a' implicitly binds ko'a to it.

mu'o mi'e .adam.