Re: [lojban] questions about DOI & cmene

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:

> At 04:45 AM 07/15/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
>
> > No -- what you say is in clear contradiction to the Woldy Codex, page 136
> > in discussion of ex. 11.5, though I too was in error. It is clear from
> > the book that "coi nanmu" = "coi le nanmu" = "coi do voi nanmu fa ke'a".
>
> Well, I could say the book is wrong, but that wouldn't be appropriate. %^)
>
> I'll just say that in ex. 11.5 there doesn't seem to be a substantial 
> difference in meaning between his chosen expansion and mine, which would 
> have use "la" instead of "le".


Sure there is.  I distinctly remember asking you whether "doi girl in
the red dress" (Carter vocative) was intended to be veridical or non-v.,
and you distinctly said non-v.  There was no question of its meaning
"O person named Girl In Red Dress!" which indeed is doi la etc.


> I'm missing the difference in the above pair.


doi bunre addresses something which is (perhaps non-veridically)
brown, whereas doi la bunre addresses someone named Brown.

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