Re: [lojban] {le} in xorlo

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Hey xorxes, since we're on this topic, could you answer a question about xorlo that I couldn't find on the "how to use xorlo" page?

What does it mean if I say {ci lo re bakni cu citka lo pipno}?  And would the meaning change if I used {le pipno} instead of {lo pipno}

 mi'e pafcribe

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

(pc will probably want to argue that there is an objective rock

bottom, but let's stay away from that putative rock bottom for the
moment so that we have the two perspectives easily available.)

Geez, Louise, do I really say stuff like that?  Yes, I suppose I do (don't bother citing the references).  Of course, if we shift the frame we can get down to something else -- not necessarily deeper, but different.  In any case this doesn't have a lot to do with 'le', whose specificity (or whatever you want to call it) derives from its deictic character: the referent is already picked out and then it gets a label attached.

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