[lojban] Re: "they"

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Friday 25 July 2003 19:37, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2003-07-24 5:21:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>
> ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
> > > Who went?  "They" is anaphora, it's only meaningful in English when
> > > we've already been talking about some group.
>
> "they" is ambiguous in english.  it's often anaphoric, referring to
> people/things already spoken of, but it can also be deictic, referring to
> people/things who are neither speaker nor addressee, but not referred to
> before.  ex: (pointing at some group of people) "who are they?"

"They" can also refer to more than one thing (as opposed to one group) 
previously mentioned, e.g. "The cheetah chased the gazelle. They are tired.". 
For this I invented {xai}.

> btw, "ledu" seems weird to me.

Me too. It sounds like using "same" for "it".

phma
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