Re: [lojban] searching

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la latro'a cu cusku di'e
> If you defined it the other way, you wouldn't get quite the same thing
> by just attaching {poi}. Instead you could wind up looking for a
> definite shirt, rather than just "some green shirt".

Xorlo "lo creka" does not refer to a specific shirt, that would be "le 
creka", so there is no problem with using lo here, but:

> {da} wouldn't fix
> this either, because the quantifier would be in the wrong place. (That
> is, "I'm looking for {da poi crino}" is "There exists a green thing that
> I'm looking for"; the existential is outside the looking.

Right, "da" doesn't work for these situations, that's one of the 
problems xorlo fixed.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i



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