prenu

[lynn]

Current:

$x_{1}$ is a person/people (noun) [not necessarily human]; $x_{1}$ displays personality/a persona.

Suggest:

$x_{1}$ is a person [not necessarily human], displaying personality $x_2$ (ka, plural).

The x₂ refers to any properties satisfied by x₁ that describe sentient behaviors that back up x₁'s personhood and optionally distinguish x₁ from other similar persons.

That is, your personality consists meaningfully of (λx. x is prone to anger), and trivially also (λx. x can feel pain), but not (λx. x weighs 60 kg) or (λx. x needs food to survive).

[Ntsekees]

I'm not comfortable with the idea of merging the concepts of personhood and personality. There are animals that are considered not to be persons, and yet they do display a variety of personalities. Furthermore, if the second slot is not optional (ziho'd by default) then {lo so'i prenu} would imply the people all share the same personality, I'm afraid.

[lynn]

Oh, sure, the slot is ziho'd by default. The x₂ plays only a supporting role. And yeah, I'm not proposing to redefine {prenu} as just having personality traits, because like you say, some of them can be ascribed to non-persons. But every {prenu} has such traits, so including them in the structure seems useful (in fact I'm throwing in this place because it's commonplace, see {selpre} on jbovlaste).

Furthermore, if the second slot is not optional (ziho'd by default) then {lo so'i prenu} would imply the people all share the same personality, I'm afraid.

Why?