[lojban-beginners] Re: la/le

["Lakshmi Ravi Narayan" <lakshmiravinarayan@gmail.com>]

la and le are merely distinguishing words. they indicate whether the word coming up next is a specific or general selbri, like common and proper noun. its significance becomes evident when it is seen from the computer parsing perspective.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM, M CHILDS <m_chi919@msn.com> wrote:

I'm still having trouble understanding la and le... so for instance

ninmu is a selbri
and le would be a sumti

le ninmu

and the structure of ninmu is
 x1 is a woman

so for the distinction between THE and A?
and why is someone's name x1 = la?

and why are le and la necessary if they are place holders for the object, when the selbri describes that object?

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