EWC wrote:
It would be very bad manners to use a bare {le mlatu} again for a different group of cats.As logical statements there's no requirment that the group of cats remains the same between statements. There are just two groups each consisting of at least one thing described as a cat. If you were a computer interpreting those statements you couldn't assume the "all of at least one described as cat"s were the same.
Hence the bi'u attitudinal, which lets you tag a sumti as either having a new or an old referent. -- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_