[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban Reader

["Betsemes" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> Hmm... If I did, I probably didn't put it that way. Pointing at something
> non-physical would seem to be impossible rather than illegal. {ti} is
> _supposed_ to refer to things you can point at, but sometimes
> people don't use it that way.

This might not be lojbanic at all and might violate what {ti} was intended
to, But it occurs to me that {ti} might refer to something imaginary that we
have been elaborating during a writing (or reading). We might for example be
elaborating on a book and say {ti} to refer to that book that has its
existence at the imagination realm. This might not agree with the official
meaning of the {ti} words, but what happens if you are reading a book and
find that usage? The book is already written and the word is being used
thus. The author might argue just what makes you think that concepts and
imaginary things are not actually physical in some other plane of existence?
Maybe usage will change the meaning of {ti}, just maybe.




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