Subject: Re: [lojban] "generic Odysseys"

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:50:24 -0500

And Rosta wrote:

> I would see "prenrmaiklu" as equivalent to "me la maiky'elsym"
> (assuming that the referent of "la maiky'elsym" has been fixed as
> "Michael Helsem") and the question is what gadri to prefix to these to 
> come out with something that determinately refers to Michael Helsem.
> To my mind, the right gadri would be "lo'e", the gadri to use when a
> category is being viewed as singleton,

While this is not wrong, it seems overcomplex relative to "lo", given
that lo ro prenrmaiklu = lo pa prenrmaiklu in fact.

> while "le" would mean
> "each of certain specific versions of Michael Helsem".

It might also mean the in-mind Michael Helsem. If you recall,
I once praised the acting of le prenrdjekniklsyn in _Much Ado
About Nothing_, meaning in fact lo prenrmaiklkiton.

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