Re: [lojban] Re: Another stab at a Record on ce'u

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Nick Nicholas wrote:

> For clarification, and because I tend to get caught in my own vocab: By
> Free {ka}, I mean a {ka} clause which may well contain {ce'u}, but where
> that {ce'u} is not necessarily filled in by any sumti in the bridi, or


I am not sure this distinction is useful enough.



> And I at least now think this is a quality, not a property



I might open a new can by demanding an example of the difference between
"quality" and "property". Or I could be Lojbanic and observe that clearly
whatever difference there may be in English, in Lojban at least as far as
ka is concerned, there isn't any.




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