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la .guskant. cu cusku di'e
> Which do you prefer:
>
> 1. keep the current situiation, and regard {soi} as an exception of
> scope of terms;
> 2. keep the current situiation, and let {soi} loose the power of
> left-scope ({soi} becomes the same as {xoi});
> 3. create a new grammatical property for {soi}, and keep {xoi} as it is;
> 4. allow {soi}-clause become a "free", that has the same property as
> {sei}-clause (easier than 3.);
> 5. other.

New-{soi} originally started out as a free modifier (before xoi became 
popular), but then I thought that being a term is more useful because it 
allows us to use it in termsets:

   (A) mi ge lo xamsi soi cafne gi lo cmana soi to'e cafne cu klama
       "I often go to the ocean, but rarely to the mountain."

Such a construction used to be impossible before. However, now that 
{xoi} exists, it could easily replace {soi} in that sentence, and {soi} 
*could* go back to being a free modifier (option 4).

I think this would depend on how much support {xoi} has (it has 
experimental cmavo form which might bother some people?). If {xoi} is 
going to become part of standard Lojban then I think option 4 works 
(sentence (A) needs to remain expressable somehow).

I'd like to hear from other users of both {soi} and {xoi}.

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o

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