[lojban-beginners] Re: lei and loi

[Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Isen hand wrote:

> [ li'o ]
> Then the book goes on to say that “lu’o le" and "lu’o lo" are
> useful concepts even without numbers, and there are shorter ways of  
> saying each
> when no number comes between them: "lei" and "loi" respectivly

My understanding is that this refers to inner and outer quantifiers.  
You can have things like {lu'o PA le PA broda} where you fill in PA  
with a number. So {lu'o le} can be replaced by {lei} but {lu'o PA le}  
can't.

This is used for saying things like {two of the three dogs} = {re le/ 
lo ci gerku}. The meaning of the inner and outer quantifier, and  
whether to us {le} or {lo} for a particular situation depends on if  
you're using xorlo or CLL-style gadri.

Side note -- in your message you used a bunch of line breaks in a row  
between paragraphs. Do you mind not doing that? It makes me have to  
scroll a *lot* to read. ki'esai!