Re: CHAT: the gay Canadian (was: "have a nice day")

Matt Pearson wrote:

> Perhaps "the X" in this case means "the individual out of some
> (perhaps unspecified) set of individuals who is identified or
> identifiable by virtue of being an X".
That rather begs the question:  the "the" in this definition
suggests uniqueness, but "Matt the gay Canadian" does not.

> This seems like a natural
> metaphorical extension of the normal meaning of "the" from
> ordinary definite descriptions to epithets.  How are epithetical
> (??) expressions handled in Lojban?
When combined with names, a restrictive relative clause is used:

        la mat. poi mitcinse kadno
        the-one-called Matt who is-a-homosexual Canadian

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