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

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

    > 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'.

   Then isn't the bottle by the side of the road a kevna, making this whole
   discussion of it and whether botpi fo noda is a botpi irrelevant since we
   can just call it a kevna?

You could call it a kevna.  Or you could use a mechanism mentioned in
the discussion to indicate that it could have a cap and use the word
botpi.  

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