Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

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

la .lojbab. cu cusku di'e
> What semantic distinctions arise from identifying
> something as a name as opposed to a normal description, I am not sure
> (but it would surely encompass the relevant place structures).

But {la} doesn't describe. It names. I don't describe Jacob Errington as 
a sky when I call him by la tsani, and neither does he describe himself 
as a sky by giving himself that name. It's merely a label used to refer 
to this individual, nothing more.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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