Re: any, opaque, transparent, xe'e...

[jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU]

Thank you Chris!!! Excellent explanation of what opaque means.

> I have a suspicion that the *ideal* logical solution to all this, if we were
> starting from scratch, is to eliminate words like nitcu, djica, and claxu
> from the lexicon, and find a way of communicating those concepts that is
> explicitly marked as negative.

Or allow those words to only accept events, like was done for {djica} and
{sisku}, but not yet for {nitcu}, {claxu}, {kalte} and maybe some others.
I don't think that is the best solution, though.

> But I don't think that's very practical at
> this point.  Realistically I think we have to use either Lojbab's or Jorge's
> marking schemes, or forbid opaque references altogether, using other
> mechanisms like "mi tanxe nictu" to get the point across.

What is it that you are calling Lojbab's scheme? Use of {tu'a}, or use of
{lo tanxe} for these predicates with a different meaning than for most
other predicates?

Jorge