Subject: Re: [lojban] "which" word

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:14:55 -0400

At 03:46 PM 05/12/2000 -0400, [email-masked] wrote:
>In a message dated 5/12/00 10:35:23 AM CST, [email-masked] writes:
>
><< stidi zo xomoi .i mu'a cusku lu le xomoi to beti toi cu broda
> li'u (Maybe: "Which-th" as in "Which-th (of these), is (something)?")
> >>
>Remind me what is wrong with {mo} here, except it forces left grouping when
>you might want something rightward.

The classic argument against "mo" has been that it is too vague and 
practically invites irrelevancy. It is saying "supply me a selbri here", 
which in the case of "le mo broda" is asking only for a modifier - it is 
not necessarily asking for a clarifier.

lojbab
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