[lojban] Neutral words

[Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>]

We are compiling a list of selma'o ordered by whether or not
they have neutral members:

    http://openetherpad.org/neutral-lojban-words

The goal is to identify selma'o that lack neutral members even
though it would make sense for them to exist, and then define
experimental cmavo to fill these gaps.

Neutral selma'o members are useful all-purpose linguistic tools,
and fit very well into the rest of the Lojban language.

So far, we have added {xo'e} to jbovlaste as the neutral PA.
According to xalbo, this word has been suggested before.

    http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/xo'e

The next selma'o we want to tackle is LAhE.  A neutral LAhE
would be useful in practice as a substitute for {zo'e pe ...}, and
as a substitute for {tu'a ...} when you don't want an abstraction.

I suggest {tu'oi} as the neutral LAhE.  It is similar to {tu'a},
which is very good mnemonically, and it has an "o", which
makes it fit rather well with {co'e}, {do'e}, {zo'e}, and {xo'e}.
In addition, it is similar to {tu'o}, which is a neutral-ish word.
(But {tu'oi} and {tu'o} would not occur in the same contexts,
so I don't think there are any collision problems.)

Thoughts on all this?

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