[lojban-beginners] Re: logical proofs?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:29:51AM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > 
> > The rest of you should note that this isn't even *close* to
> > begginer Lojban.
> >
> 
> I concur - although the maths is quite fun (I'm a maths grad). But
> I do have one lojban query:
> 
> What does broda do, and how does it work? 

Loosely, {<incredibly long tanru> cei broda} assigns broda to the
meaning of the incredibly long tanru.

> My wordlist gives it as
> "predicate var 1: 1st assignable variable predicate (context
> determines place structure)", which makes it sound like a
> pro-bridi. 

Pretty much, yeah.

> So why not just use the bridi itself?

In this case, because it was ji'i 7 syllables.  :-)

-Robin

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