Re: la'e

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>The meaning of xukau varies according to which selbri the abstraction
>containing xukau is a sumti of. So while I might accept that
>{xukau} makes sense in the false bridi {djuno le se du`u xu kau
>ko`a badri}, because we do know what {xukau} means in {djuno le se
>du`u xu kau ko`a badri}, it does not follow that we know what
>{xukau} means in {cusku le se du`u xu kau ko`a badri}, for
>we do not know what {xukau} means in the false bridi {cusku le du`u
>xu kau ko`a badri}.

I totally miss what you are saying here (and just trying to figure out the
parallel and contrast between the examples was difficult enough).  All I wish
 tsay is that definitionally:

ledu'u xukau ko'a badri cu du'u lesedu'u xukau ko'a badri
by the definition of descrriptors and se.  (perhaps there is a quantification
scope thing here though, and you need to move the xukau out to the prenex?)
Or are you saying that xukau is like zo'e and cannot be quantified, but
rather must be reanalyzed at each sumti position at which it occurs
independently?  So far we have only a couple such words possible as sumti
and they are called out as such in their definitions.

lojbab
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