.u'i As a novice I would like to get into this conversation and muddy the
waters a bit!
In my understanding the difference between lo cribe and le cribe is that when
I say "lo cribe cu citka lo jbari" I mean Actual bears eat Actual berries -
while when I say "le cribe cu citka le jbari" I mean "there is some thing I'm
calling a bear (which may or may not be vaguely resemble a bear) is eating
something I'm calling 'berries' (regardless of whether they are really apples
or papaya or people)".
lo == the thing which (apparently) really is X
le == the thing I'm calling X (which is not required to be a real X)
So the usefulness of le is that you can describe things by their
characteristics/behavior or any word you want to apply to them.
While with lo you mean what you (exactly) say - no metaphor, no simile, no
puns, etc.
So is that it, or am I totaly decieved?