[lojban] Re: "they"

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

> > btw, "ledu" seems weird to me.
> 
> Me too. It sounds like using "same" for "it".

As xorxes has said, the meaning of "ledu" is simply the automatic
product of the meaning of "le" and the meaning of "du". When
used with a meaning analogous to that of "them", "du" is used
as the semantically emptiest possible brivla (not because it
is semantically empty, but because it is so uninformative,
given that ro da du su'o de. If Lojban had such a thing as a 
dummy brivla with no meaning, then we would use that instead. 

--And.