In a message dated 8/29/2001 7:19:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes: What is the big difference you see between si'o2 and li'i2? There probably isn't much (if any), but once you get it into your head that {si'o} is like {ka} and {du'u} you're on a slippery slope to something very strange. As near as I can make out from what And says in recognizable Lojban or English, the use of the second argument is application of the argument to the (first?) lambda variable in the the phrase, i.e., <le si'o ce'u broda be mi> = <le du'u mi broda> (different "quotes" since the stuff inside is not obviously Lojban). |