Subject: Re: ce'u

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:50:51 EDT

(apologies to xorxes for repeat)
In a message dated 8/3/2001 3:24:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> la xod cusku di'e
> 
> >However, the problem may be worse than you state. Page 259, ex. 4.4:
> >
> >    le ka do xunre cu cnino mi
> >    the property-of your being-red is new to me.
> >
> >Where is your ce'u there? In a place that's already filled!
> 
> That should have been:
> 
>     le nu do xunre cu cnino mi
> 
> We should not use {ka broda} just because broda happens to be
> an adjective in English.
> 

Surely the right thing to say here, but there is (for loopholing) the 
position that closed property abstracts are properties of worlds or some such 
things (which turns out to be dangerously close to event abstracts, in fact).