Re: [lojban] Re: loglan/lojban masses/sets

[Robert McIvor <rmcivor@macsrule.com>]

On May 10, 2004, at 2:58 PM, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:

> Jorge Llamb?as scripsit:
>
> > As far as I know it doesn't have anything like lo'e/le'e
> > either. 
>
> Loglan has lo'e (viz. loe); I don't think it has anything like le'e.

I never agreed with JCB about what he called sets but that's the way it is.  In his usage it is just a collective term, for which we use a lot of specialized words in E, such as herd, pack, flock, (without getting into clowders, prides etc.)

From the Loglan dictionary
lee, 
LW RH '92 7+
(art) the (one or more things I mean which actually are)…, if there is such, otherwise the empty set (see le and laa) 


laa, 
<langa>  Afx JCB '88 7+
(af) a combining form of langa, long.   
(art) The (unique object which actually is)…if such exists, otherwise the empty set. (see le and lee) 


cu, 
LW L4 '75 1.0
(af) a suffix attaching to number words (NI) forming an indefinite-set descriptor. E.g., tocu  in: Tocu kicmu pa kiuklu levi nordje  Some two doctors operated (together) on this patient. Cf. To kicmu pa kiukli levi nordje  Each of some two doctors operated independently on this patient.   
(c) whether (or not), between modified/fying words.  

ro, 
LW L4 '75 1.0
(a) many/a large number of set…, a quantifying operator.   
–ro (af) …–st/–nd/–rd/–th, the quality ordinal suffix, postfixed to integers e.g. le tori gudbi bedpu – the second–best bed.