From jjllambias@hotmail.com Thu Jul 06 18:59:58 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15488 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.193) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 86514 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jul 2000 01:59:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20000707015957.86513.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.153.103 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:59:57 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.153.103] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:59:57 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la and cusku di'e > > le mo mlatu i le blabi mlatu > > Which cat? The white cat. > > > > lo mo mlatu i lo blabi mlatu > > What kind of cat? A white cat. > >I don't think this necessarily works, except as a convention that >exceeds the grammar's stipulations. Specifically, the problem is >that when discussing "le mlatu", you might want to ask what kind >of cat it is, and not all relevant answers to that question will >tell you which cat is being referred to. But that would be {le mlatu cu mo}, or {le mlatu cu ckaji ma}. I was not so much concerned about how to get the "what kind?" question as the "which?", and {le mo} has to mean "which?" because of {le}'s specificity. It can't mean "what kind?". co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com