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le ninmu veridicality query
jorge@phyast.pitt.edu cuku di'e
... For example, say I use {le ninmu} to refer non-veridically to a
number of men. Then I could say
mi viska pa le ci ninmu
I see one of the three "women".
This is -specific. Is it also -veridical? It looks like it is.
I do not understand what you are suggesting by asking whether `it' is
-veridical. The expression {le ninmu} is not veridical, since you are
saying that you are designating entities as women regardless of
whether or not they `really' are women. However, the utterance as a
whole is true in the context you described.
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