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

John Cowan <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:37:53 -0400
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seqram2 scripsit:

> 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. 

Absolutely. It is equivalent to "There is a bird such that I see it"
and expressed in XS-Lojban as in Loglan as "mi viska pa cipni".
Or "su'o cipni" if you want to be nonspecific about number.

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