[lojban] Re: What the heck is this crap?

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> This drastically changes the semantics of lojban as I understand them.
> As I engage in real-time conversations in the language, albeit with word
> lookup, I feel that I understand the basic semantics pretty well.



But it gets worse. According to Nick Nicholas, in a recent email to me:

> zo'e = su'o de
>
> ro bangu cu selfi'i zo'e = ro da poi bangu; su'o de zo'u: da selfinti de
> (This is read as there being a possibly distinct de for each da)
>
> zo'e finti ro bangu = su'o de; ro da poi bangu zo'u: de finti da
> (This is read as there being at least one de inventing all da)




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