Re: [lojban] according to

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 18 March 2013 14:00, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> "du'o" is glossed "according to". It's quite common, though, for the object of
> "according to" to be someone who doesn't know it for certain, but asserts it
> to be true, maybe to the best of his knowledge, but maybe he's lying. This is
> better expressed by "fi'o xusra", which doesn't have a corresponding word in
> BAI. How about "xu'a" as an experimental cmavo for "fi'o xusra"?

What would be the difference from {cu'u}?

Also, note that the definition of {xusra} says "can be used for
epistemology of authority". Epistemology. That's djuno4. I
occasionally use {vedu'o} for "according to".

mu'o

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