Re: [lojban] lo'edu'u

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

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:23:47PM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
[snip]
> Is this tinkering? Is this casuistry? Is this pedantry? No,
> lojbanists. This is Lojban. The minute you let {lo'e} into the
> language alongside {le}, and {du'u} alongside {nu}, you create a
> distinction. If you ignore that distinction, you are misusing Lojban,
> as surely as if you say {re} instead of {pa}. English uses 'that' for
> {lenu}, {lo'enu}, {lo'edu'u}, {loisu'u}, and any number of other
> possibilities. Lojban requires a distinction. {le} presupposes you can
> count the referents. {nu} presupposes the referent is an event. If you
> always say {lenu} where you should be saying {lo'edu'u} instead,
> you're just calquing 'that'. You're not thinking Lojbanically. And if
> you wanted English...
[snip]

Dude, that *ROCKED*[1].  I can't wait to see Lojban For Intermediates if
it's going to contain clear, precise, easy-to-understand stuff like that
post.

-Robin


[1]: .i'ecai

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