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Re: Meaning of 'la'



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> If I understand John's answer to my previous query, the word 'la' is
> ambigious between "the thing named by the string ..." and "the thing
> named by the predicate ...". IE:
>
>         la lojbab
>
> could mean the thing named by the sound 'lohzbahb' (presumably a sound
> borrowed from another language) or the thing named "logical soap".

No, because "lojbab" is not a legal predicate for "logical soap".  Predicates
all end in vowels:  "logical soap" has to be "lojzbabu" or the like.

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