selpa'i wrote:
la .lojbab. cu cusku di'eWhat 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.
But "tsani" itself is grammatically a brivla, and implicit (grammatically) in "la tsani" is "la tsani be ...". The places are inseparable from the brivla. That is fundamental to the language.
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