Re: [lojban] Re: I wanted to share this with you (writing thingy!).

[Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>]

2010/11/12 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Turniansky
> <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I believe that
>> stress is salient feature of cmevla and that la martin and la marTIN
>> are not the same person/animal/thing (unless that person answers to
>> both names).
>
> The PEG morphology doesn't distinguish them. That means that "zoi
> .marTIN. whatever .martin." is a valid sumti. You will need to use a
> different morphology if they are to count as two different words.
>

Syntactically, they're unambiguously the same word.

Semantically... well, they're probably the same in most cases, but as
a simple matter of pragmatics I'm pretty sure that if you know a
Martin and a Martín who both speak Lojban and are in the room, and you
say "doi .martin. mi do prami" nobody's going to get confused about
which one you're declaring your feelings for.

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