[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Let's do something like this for Lojban!

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > I disagree. ko'a - vo'u are Lojban's he, she, and it. Unlike most languages,
>> > we get 8 of them, and they're all gender neutral. ko'a-vo'u aren't pointing
>> > words, they refer to a specific entity, which may be explicitly made using
>> > goi, or implicitly assigned from context.
>>
>> I disagree here. While I'm a great support of "meaning by context", on
>> his own {ko'a} has no meaning and can't be used the same way the third
>> person is used in English and other languages.
>
> You give no reasons for why you think that, so I have nothing to say on this other than that I don't share your belief.

The reason is CLL 7.5 (or at least the way I read it). I thought it was not contentious that the KOhA series had not "obvious value"

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