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Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful



Jay Kominek wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote:

Originally "du" was in its own selma'o, DU, and was permitted only
as a selbri_B_132 (IIRC). But I somewhat hastily over-generalized it
into selma'o GOhA, thus permitting some highly dubious constructs like
tanru with du.


Highly dubious?

It seems like it could be useful to make quick and imperfect statements
about kinds of equality.

{mi junta du do}

It would be better to use dunli in such a case.



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