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Re: [lojban] li'i (was: Another stab at a Record on ce'u



In a message dated 8/31/2001 12:08:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


., <le si'o ce'u broda be
> mi> = <le du'u mi broda> (different "quotes" since the stuff inside is
not
> obviously Lojban).

I have not said anything even remotely like this, unless by some calamitous
typing error while tired.

{le si'o ce'u broda kei be mi} = my notion of Broda

However, I did say that when people think they want a ce'u in li'i,
what they really want is not a ce'u but a variable bound to le se li'i.

I apologize.  I seem to have joined (against my intentions) the group that
have taken {li'i} into the group with {si'o} and then slid from the obscurity
about {li'i} to one about {si'o}.
But just what does "the {ce'u} is a variable bound to le se li'i" mean?  The
first guess, again, is that it is just "replace {ce'u} by le se li'i,"  which
makes sense, but seems unduly curcuitous.  Another is that it means a
variable whose range depends upon what is referred to by li se li'i -- my
experience of the dark (I don't know where the {ce'u} is supposed to go here)
is different from yours because what is unlit for me is different from for
you?  I guess I need some examples with explanation.  
I gather that, in fact, you don't think that {ce'u} as a lambda variable
belongs in {li'i} and that I certainly agree with.  I'm less clear what you
do think belongs there, other than {zo'e} and content.