la .pycyn. cu cusku di'eSurely not.
Herein is the crux. What is Lojban? It is surely not the language off
CLL or much like it;
xorlo is but a tiny fraction of what sets apart CLL-Lojban from Now-Lojban.
it is not that modified by xorlo (any of the dozen
or so xorlos, not counting those by xorxes himself).
In case of choice number 1, who would decide all the issues and lay down the law?
Honesty would have
it extracted from all the text around, assuming that could be collected,
but that is probably not a consistent corpus and certainly would not
meet the requirements of being a loglang. Even the corpus of one
Lojbanist is somewhat iffy. You have two choices: a new
presecriptivism, which decides all issues and lays down the law in a
tight program, (OK, three -- we could go back to CLL) or a free-for-all
building to a new consensus and eventual formalization.
Right. I wouldn't call them equivalent, since obviously {PA lo broda} is quantification over the referent(s) of {lo broda}, while {PA broda} never goes through that step. It just happens that there are cases where it makes no difference which one you use. When it does make a difference, it is often an "anaphoric" use of {lo broda}, sometimes in a malgli way (when the speaker unconsciously wants to do what {le} actually does). The difference between the two expressions (or the lack thereof) hinges to some degree at least on how {lo broda} is conceptualized; is it a group of indeterminate number or is it {lo xo na'i broda} (that is, the concept of number just doesn't apply to it until you explicitly specify number using an inner quantifier) ?.
(In either case, {PA lo broda} is not the same as {PA broda}.)
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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