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

[chris kerr <letsclimbhigher@gmail.com>]

Wouldn't a good fix be to have:

"the truth value of" = {jei}
"whether" = {du'u xu kau}

Any arguments against?
codrus

2010/3/15 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?
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> 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.
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> mu'o mi'e xorxes
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