[lojban-beginners] Re: lo nanmu poi na va

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

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> I keep having to get used to the change from CLL, where {lo} 
> means "the really is" and {le} means "the described as." If I 
> understand correctly from the wiki's BPFK Section: gadri, I 
> think {lo nanmu} now means "any of the things that are a man" 
> and {le nanmu} now means "a particular man I have in mind."

I think those mean the same thing; the wording may merely be confusing.
Using {lo} asserts that something really is an X; using {le} asserts that
there is something specific which you will call an X but need not be an X.
(For example, a drag queen might be a {le ninmu} but not a {lo ninmu}.)

Either is non-specific with respect to number; {lo nanmu} is something like
"one or more of the one or more things that are men" while {le nanmu} is
"all of those (one or more) whom I am thinking of and whom I will describe
as 'men'".

mu'o mi'e .filip.