[lojban] Re: le du

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

Jordan:
> > go'a-series  : ra-series
> > broda-series : ke'a-series
> > bu'a-series  : da-series
> > co'e         : ???????
>
> ...  zo'e, of course ...

See my reply to Adam L.

> > > Another possibility we have not yet considered is {le bu'a}.
> > 
> > We have not considered the more general question of what bu'a
> > means when not quantified in the prenex. Personally, I would
> > see it as the brivla equivalent of ce'u, in which case it wouldn't
> > be equivalent to {le du}.
>
> Seems to me that it should probably default to su'obu'a, like da
> defaults to su'oda.

If that were the case, then {le bu'a} would suffice as a descriptionless
referential expression, but would have the drawback of introducing
communicatively redundant quantification with all its attendant
difficulties.

--And.