From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jul 10 12:22:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18451 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 19:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jul 2000 19:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 19:22:58 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27875; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:22:40 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <396A2246.2D1350F0@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:21:42 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Llambias , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component References: <20000709153745.68690.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jorge Llambias wrote: > What would you use as [sumti]? In {le mlatu du ma}, the > speaker already has to know which cat they mean. I think that in a clarifying question, "le" need not imply that the speaker knows; it is probably enough if the listener (the original speaker) does. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)