[lojban] {le} and {lo}.

[Opi Lauma <opi_lauma@yahoo.com>]

Hi all,

I try to understand the usage of {le} and {lo}. The
analogy with English articles ?the? and ?a/an? does
not help me to much since I am not native English
speaker.

However, I think that I understood the usage of {le}.
Actually {le X} means that I speak about some earlier
selected (defined) subset of elements from set X, for
example: 

1. le gerku - the dog(s)
(one speaks about dog(s) which has/have been defined
earlier).

2. ci le gerku - three of the dogs
(one speaks about some three (it is not known which
three exactly) dogs from earlier defined group of
dogs).

3. le ci gerku - the three dogs
(one speaks about the three earlier defined dogs).

4. re le ci gerku
(one speaks about some two dogs, from earlier defined
group consisting of three dogs).
I think that it is no use to say the two dogs of the
three dogs {le re le ci gerku}, since if we know which
two dogs it is spoken about, we do not need to know to
which group of dogs these two dogs belong. Did I
correctly understand everything? 

About {lo}. Is it right that {lo gerku} = {le N
gerku}, where N is a number of all {gerku} in the
world?



		
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