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Re: [lojban] specificity of 'ma'
pycyn@aol.com scripsit:
> > {la mo} works. But "who" doesn't insist on a name.
>
> Will {la mo} guarantee a name?
No (for not all names are predicates). But if you want a name,
*ask* for a name: ma cmene lo klama be le zarci
should provoke zo djan.
> and {lo} won't usually work ("a certain" is an English quantifier trick, not
> specific -- or is it definite? -- outside of certain special cases -- nothing
> seems to work like it in Lojban --- though I did try.)
"A certain x" is +specific -definite, or lebi'unai.
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