On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:31:22AM -0500, .arpis. wrote:
> > Hopefully in binary at least, that would at least increase the bound to
> > 31..
> > That sentence is not difficult at all in my opinion. {.u'i}
>
> I was thinking that, but I didn't reply because it would have been unproductive.
> {lo banli pensi vo'a se pensi simsa} (great minds think alike)
{u'isai} If you say so.
> > Maybe
> > {ju'o do na skudji lonu ba'e broda}
> > "Surely you don't mean to say -something unspecified-"
> > works?
> That doesn't work for the same reason as {ko'a}; I may have used {cei}
> somewhere to bind it.
> If I say "You are not allowed to say things like 'X is stupid'", I don't
> mean that you're not allowed to call a particular person stupid but that
> you're not allowed to call anyone stupid; however, I'm not using {da} to
> bind to the referent of your insult. Instead I'm providing a template for
> making a bridi and telling you not to use any bridi that could be made
> using that template.
>
> > I can't find a scenario in which the /X/ would
> > not take a specific value depending on context.
Fair enough.
Still, in quotations broda/ko'a should work out,
because _your_ usage of {cei} should not influence the quote.
{tolcurmi lonu do cusku lu ko'a bebna li'u}
"it's not allowed that you say '/X/ is silly'"
works out in my opinion, for the speaker would use {losedu'u ko'a bebna}
if he would mean a specific (bound) {ko'a}.
If you would like to avoid these assignables,
{tolcurmi lonu do cusku lu li'o bebna li'u}
might do the trick..?
v4hn
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