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[lojban-beginners] Frequency of {lo} and {le}



Please don't groan about what must be another xorlo question.

I was reading http://www.lojban.org/tiki/How+to+use+xorlo again, and came across these two sentences: “In my post-xorlo writings, lo outnumbers le by about three to one (at a guess). I only use le when I'm talking about a specific item.”. To me, those seem at odds. The first bullet point after this implies that the “only” here is being used for effect, rather than logic, so I'm still stuck. I would assume that specific objects are talked about as frequently, if not more so, than generic descriptions. At least on Twitter, where most of my writing practice happens, this seems to be the case.

It makes me wonder whether I have misunderstood. Can you either reassure me or point out where I am misunderstanding?

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