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pc:
> If you can point to it, it will be both.

I think it is possible to point to a locus through a specimen,
meaning that the referent of the pronoun will be the locus and
not necessarily the specimen. For example, I point to a red
shirt and tell the seller "I want that one but in blue", {mi
djica ta poi ku'i blanu}. {ta} refers to the kind of shirts for
which the one on display is a specimen. The ku'i is necessary to
override the more natural initial assumption that I'm pointing
to the specimen rather than the locus.

> {kruca} just is all wrong — as
> is, indeed, the word "intersection" bioth her and in math usage generally.
> To use it here would be malglico to the max.

Well, not only glico in any case. I don't find it to be such a bad
metaphor, since the intersection is the part that both intersectors
have in common, or the subset with common members in the case of sets.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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