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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Syntactically, they're unambiguously the same word.

That's what I'm saying, yes.

> 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.

At least nobody who is also aware of their non-Lojban name. But that
could also be true even if they both shared the same identical
non-Lojban name. In most cases people will figure out which ".martin."
you mean just from their knowledge of the situation, who you are
looking at when speaking, or many other clues.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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