[lojban] Metalinguistic sumti-to-selbri operator

[Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com>]

I think we should have a generic operator for converting a sumti referring
to a selbri into a selbri.  I propose calling it {me'ei}.  It'd be part of ME.

For example,

    i do ko'a me'ei lo melbi
    You have a beautiful relation to ko'a.

    i pe'i la xalbo na me'ei lo smuni be lo cmene be vo'a
    I don't think xalbo lives up to his name.

This plugs a language hole that may be somewhat theoretical but in my opinion
is pretty fundamental.  It also provides a way to define things like {me'oi}:

    {me'oi foo} = {me'ei lo smuni be zo'oi foo}

And if you don't like {bu'a}, which is a bit awkward to quantify, depending on
your standard for awkwardness, you can just use {me'ei da}.

All in all, it's a powerful tool for talking about and manipulating predicates.

For example, one could define a brivla like this:

    {kibro} = {me'ei lo smuni be zo kibro bei la jbovlaste}

Now, maybe that's not how you interpret it, but at least now you can
talk about it in a precise manner.

Thoughts?

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