Re: do djica loi ckafi je'i tcati

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

la djer cusku di'e

> I rather liked my first suggestion, as corrected by jorge:
>
> mi nitcu le su'u me le taxpu'i me'u da kei
> I want the in-mind abstracton about boxing things.

I think I muddled things more if this comes out of my comment.

{me le taxpu'i} is something specific to someone who puts thing in boxes.

I think {mi nitcu le su'u taxpu'i [da]} is approximately what you want
"I need the abstraction of boxing something"

But I would use simply {nu}: {mi nitcu le nu taxpu'i da} "I need to
box something".

This is sidestepping the issue, though. I still would like to say
"I need a box" without having to specify what I need it for.

> And now I am beginning to be haunted by a Beatles lyric:
> "Something in the way she walks.."
> How do you say that "something" in lojban when you don't really want it
> instantiated to anything known?

I like lojbab's {le su'u ko'a cadzu}.

Jorge