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From: Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
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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