[lojban-beginners] Re^2: the articles "le" and "lo"

[Michael Graff <m.graff@freenet.de>]

coi lo se cinri be la lojban.

[Is this correct? I've tried to greet some of them who are interested in 
lojban. What binds tighter? "se" or "be"?]

> Many languages, such as Russian or Chinese,
> don't have any articles at all.
.u'e

> Anything you want to say should be sayable with {lo} only.
Okay, I want to follow your advice. If the lojban sentences in my next 
emails are improvable by the use of {le} please suggest such 
improvements so that I can understand the differences better.

> The "really is" of {lo} has nothing to do with existence in the real 
world,
> {lo xanri} for example refers to imaginary things.
interesting. This problem of what-kind-of-existence is known to some 
mathematicians too. Mathematics is the art of highly precise fiction. 
Only a fraction of this mental universe seems to be applicable to the 
description of the physical universe; but this fraction fits astonishing 
well.

> I hope my comments were of some help.
mi ckire do lo se ciksi be do i. mi djica lenu mi ta'i lo troci cu jimpe 
la lojban.

Michael.