Re: A couple of questions

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Ken:
> 1) Is there any difference between "lo broda cu brode" and "da poi broda cu
>    brode"?  If they are the same, the statement "lo [unicorn] cu brode"
>    should be false, since noda cu [unicorn].

No difference.

> 2) Has it occured to anyone that "needing" something might not imply "needing
>    to have it"?  I might say in English, "I need a clean environment," yet
>    I don't want to have (i.e., to possess) the clean environment.  Perhaps
>    this is yet another argument for constraining the x2 place of {nitcu}
>    to abstractions.

Yes it has occurred to someone.

> 3) Does the sentence
>
>      mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u makau blanu
>
>    mean "I know you know what is blue" or "I know what you know to be blue"?
>    Instinctively, the former should be correct,

Yes,

>    and the latter meaning can be expressed by
>
>      mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u makauxire blanu
>
>    Am I right?

I think you mean "I know what x is such that you know x is blue".
(Rather than "I know x such that you know x is blue".)
Clever question. I wonder leduhu xukau you are right.

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