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

[chris kerr <letsclimbhigher@gmail.com>]

Actually, is having {jei} redundant in this sense? Is there ever a
time when you need "the truth value of" and "whether" won't do?

Should {jei} then simply just be short-hand for {du'u xu kau}?

codrus

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, chris kerr <letsclimbhigher@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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
>>
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