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Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:50:19AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> In Lojban, all of these would be equally meaningless:
>
> no da broda ije ri brode
>
> no da broda ije le go'i cu brode
>
> no da goi ko'a broda ije ko'a brode

Umm, I have no trouble with any of those.

This may very well be an error on my part, but I thought you should
know.

-Robin



In Robin's defense, there do seem to be cases where pronouns (in natural languages, not yet officially in Lojban) do seem merely to repeat words, not referents, and these are particularly common with quantified expressions (where, lacking a referent outside its scope, repetitions of referent are not possible). So far as I can tell though neither {ko'a} nor anything introduced by {goi} has been used in this way (and most of the cases that do seem to work that way are open to other interpretations).