Re: [lojban-beginners] lo la me no da

[Ross Ogilvie <oges007@gmail.com>]

The reason that no {du} or {me} is needed is because { mei } 'grabs' a hold of { no } and together forms a selbri with the definition
nomei: x1 is the mass formed from set x2 whose zero members are x3
or in other words
x1 is the mass formed from the set with no members
ie
x1 is the mass of nothing

(Mass is being used here in a lojban technical way. If you haven't 
encountered it in a lojban context, a mass is basically a group of 
things)

In the previous examples, du was the selbri or me was used to turn a sumti into the selbri. But since nomei is already a selbri, these other words are not needed.

mu'o mi'e .ros.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:43 PM, <lokanoda@gmail.com> wrote:

"lo ka du no da" works. Also "lo ka me no da", or "lo ka no mei".

In this last example, why does there not have to be anything in between "lo ka" and "no mei",
as there is a "du" and "me" with the others?

thx
la ka du no da (is this correct for saying "the one named 'nothingness' "?)

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