[lojban-beginners] Re: xorlo, lo'e, and le'e

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> wrote:
> I see—that makes sense; thanks for the answer! However, this part of
> xorlo isn't really mentioned in the Wiki pages on it at all, and so
> xorlo's scope seems much less general than it really is: all sumti.
> Could I add what you just said to the "How to use xorlo" page in the
> wiki? I'm sure it'd help other newcomers a lot.

Sure.

Personally, I'm not too thrilled with how they explain xorlo in that
page, but every time I consider making changes I end up deciding that
I will probably create more confusion than anything if I point out all
the places where I disagree with it, so I end up not touching it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




> 2009/12/14 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> wrote:
>>>
>>> Under the xorlo reform, the articles in the LA and LE selma'o are
>>> reformed. However, two articles in LE are not mentioned at all in
>>> either the informal or formal proposals of xorlo: lo'e and le'e. What
>>> is the status of these cmavo after xorlo? Are they deprecated? Or are
>>> they included in xorlo? Or are they unchanged?
>>
>> The significant point of xorlo is that sumti without an explicit outer
>> quantifier are not to be taken as quantifying the bridi they appear
>> in. In that sense, all sumti are affected, whether it's a sumti from
>> KOhA or one headed by LE, LA, LAhE, LI, LU, ZO, etc.
>>
>> But other than that, I think they remain unchanged (i.e. as little
>> understood as before).
>>
>> mu'o mi'e xorxes