Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rG1Bx-00007DC; Fri, 9 Dec 94 11:00 EET Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8803; Fri, 09 Dec 94 11:00:52 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 8796; Fri, 9 Dec 1994 11:00:44 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4259; Fri, 9 Dec 1994 09:57:23 +0100 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 13:08:40 EST Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: jei X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 520 Lines: 25 la lojbab cusku di'e > The value of jei would come in discussions of logic when you might want > to explicitly say > > li pa jei broda Ok. Then for non-logicians it is fairly useless. > I don't think > > li pa du'u xukau broda > has the same meaning, so the two are not synonymous. Great! Then hopefully it won't be used anymore for "whether", which is the only use it has seen so far. > (indeed I have no > idea what the latter means %^) Me neither. I can't make any sense of a number in the x1 of du'u. Jorge