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Re: [lojban] go'i: repeated referents or just sumti?



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.

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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_