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Re: [lojban] Re: Why does sei work the way it does?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> {sei} is more like {to} than {lo}, lindar.

You can always use "to" or "to'i" instead of "sei". The only reason
SEI exists separate from TO is so that the terminator can almost
always be elided. As it is, "se'u" is practically never needed.
Allowing trailing sumti would mean that "se'u" would almost always be
needed. In that case, it wouldn't have made sense to introduce sei at
all, since there was already to. Semantically, sei and to are
basically the same.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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