[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojbanists in Oxford

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

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:55:07PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:01:45PM +0200, Yann Le Du wrote:
> >>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> >>
> >>>la la'o xy. Yann Le Du xy. fo le samymri cu cusku fe di'e:
> >>
> >>Hi Peter,
> >>
> >>"la'o" replaces "la", so I believe you should remove the latter
> >
> >The former, you mean.
> 
> I'm lost : what should be removed ?

"la".  "la la'o" is redundant, and means "the thing named by the
thing named by this non-Lojban string", which is very much like
saying "mi se cmene la .bab.", which means "My name is named Bob".

-Robin

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