[lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> So {jei} is exactly identical to {du'u xukau}? Or is there a semantic
> difference?

There are two candidate meanings for "jei". Nobody really knows which
one is the "correct" one. One of the meanings is "du'u xukau", i.e. it
basically corresponds to the indirect question "whether". The other
candidate meaning is "the truth value of". "jei" is not used much,
since we already have "du'u xukau" for "whether", and "the truth value
of" is not something that comes up often in conversation.

mu'o mi'e xorxes