[lojban] Re: le du

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la xod cusku di'e
 
> 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. 

{ra} is never an obvious choice for me. It involves determining
where previous sumti start and end, and with any but the most trivial
of sentences this is a pain. Besides {le du} need not refer to 
something already mentioned with a previous sumti. {ko'a} is assignable, 
so if you use it you expect your interlocutor to keep its reference in 
memory. A waste of effort if you are not planning to refer to the same 
thing again. 

> But we haven't heard any such justifications yet. Without
> any, it remains verbose and to be avoided.

I don't think it needs justification, given that it is grammatical
and meaningful, but nobody has to use it if they don't want to 
either. At two syllables, it doesn't seem all that verbose to me.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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