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Re: [lojban] Re: Aesop's "The Wolf and the Crane"



Thanks, Pierre.

Sumti that are attached to a selbri in a place that is undefined in jbovlaste, get a "context dependend" meaning. It would be very stretchy to interpret the tunlo2 differently from "what is being swallowed". That said, I think that tunlo2 should have been defined this way since the beginning :)

About lo/le, I have the habit of switching to {le} when I talk about a specific thing that might have been introduced with {lo}.
After having said {lo labno noi ....} any time I write {le labno} I mean *that* wolf. If I wrote {lo labno} I might mean another wolf.
Actually I do expect the listener to understand which one I mean, of course I'm not guaranteed that he/she will but, if I'm careful, I hope I can be understood. Otherwise it would rather useless to me.



On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
On Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:38:00 Remo Dentato wrote:
> A link would be probably useful :)
>
> http://xanrilisri.thecomicseries.com/

According to jbovlaste, "tunlo" does not have an x2. According to jbofi'e, it
does.

Normally in Lojban, unlike English, French, and I suppose also Italian, one
does not switch from the indefinite article to the definite on second reference.
"le" indicates that the speaker has something in mind, but not that he expects
the listener to know what it is.

Pierre
--
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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