[lojban] Re: le du

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:


> > >  It is certainly true that anything is the same as something (namely
> > >itself), but doesn't this violate Gricean relevance?  The fact that
> > >whatever it is is identical to something/itself may be true, but is
> > >generally not relevant to whatever we're talking about.
>
> Is there any brivla with even less content that will do instead? We are
> using {du} to get the specificity content of {le} without any additional
> semantic content from the brivla.



The fact that "le du" is being used instead of ko'a or ra indicates in the
spirit of cooperation that it is not only different but better than the
obvious choices. But we haven't heard any such justifications yet. Without
any, it remains verbose and to be avoided.


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