Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

   So why don't we just change the meaning of 'botpi' so that it only
   has three places and none for a cap?

Because an indented volume with a cap is not the same as an indented
volume without a cap.  The one, the `cave with a door', is a `botpi';
the other, the `natural cave', is a `kevna'.

`botpi' does not simpley mean bottle, it means any closable container,
including a cave.  The word can mean the `mouth of a man' or a well.

Here are the distinctions, from the gismu list:

    x1 is a bottle/jar/urn/flask/closable container for x2, made of
    material x3 with lid x4
    /:/
    /=/ botpi (bot bo'i)

    x1 is a cavity/hole/hollow/cavern in x2; x1 is con-cave within
    x2; x2 is hollow at locus x1
    /:/ [also pit, depression, concaveity; hollow (= selke'a)]
    /=/ kevna (kev ke'a)

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