Re: Re: tu'o: we've already been there

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, seqram2 wrote:

> --- In [email protected], Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > An optional addition to XS (but not to be considered as a part of
> > the basic proposal) is to use loi/lei for {lo tu'o}/{le tu'o}, i.e. for
> > Substance, so xodium would be {loi marjrxodiumu} with no need to
> > glork the inner tu'o.
>
> I was wondering why something like this wasn't worked-on before.
> Since the major proposals so far focus mainly, some almost
> exclusively, on lo and le, why bring the other gadri into the picture?
> I for one actually figured that {loi} would be good for Kind, or
> Mister, or whatever, leaving {lo} still to be (potentially)
> extensional, but unspecified (what Nick said before was exactly what I
> had been thinking. When I say "I see a bird," I don't know which bird
> I'm seeing, it's unspecified, but it isn't the Kind. It's *a*
> *particular* bird, whose identity I neither know nor care about.


Yes. That's Mister.



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