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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:39:21 -0500
From: "la kinin" <MTPEPPER@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: "what i have for dinner"
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«People used to use {jei} for "whether", until it was realized that if
le jei da klama is TRUE, then you are claiming that ro da zo'u mi kucli
TRUE -- which is not what you want to claim at all. li'osa'a»

It is!? Let's break it down:

le
one-or-more-specific-things-each-of-which-I-describe-as

jei
being-a-truth-value-of

da klama
X goes

I hate to cite references, but the exact same construct (in the same
context) is used in example 11.7.6 of the Reference Grammar (ta'o, does this
book have a Lojban name?)

Says,
la xarnu kinin