la .lojbab. cu cusku di'e
> selpa'i wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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.
I agree that places are inseperable from a brivla in that the places are what the brivla
means. All the places together determine the meaning, and usually, if one or more places aren't present, the meaning of the brivla is different. When I use {tsani}, I must be aware that it relates a sky to the place it's a sky of. *That* is fundamental to the language.
However, you seem to be saying that {la tsani} and {la tsani be zo'e} or {la tsani be da} are all people that share the exact same name. And this is where I disagree.
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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