[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban meaning approximately "posture"?

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 01 pi'e 05 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. David Gowers .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> My understanding is that pe'e .e and pe'e je are identical in meaning.
> 
> This is because .e is [sumti] afterthought AND, je is [tanru]
> afterthought AND, and, AFAICS, pe'e just replaces the square-bracketed
> word with [termset], so to speak -- in the same way that 1*0 and 2*0
> both equal 0.
.skamyxatra

It's not a matter of semantics; it's a matter of grammar.  The way that
termsets are defined, "{pe'e}" can only be followed by a jek or a joik (after
any free modifiers, of course), and doing otherwise is syntactically invalid
Lojban.  While the choice of using jeks over eks seems somewhat arbitrary,
exactly what kind of connective is used for termsets would have made no real
difference, and termsets have already been defined to use jeks.  Changing that
would mean changing the grammar, and you would have to take that up with the
BPFK.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

-- 
le munje vi smaji