As the discussion so far indicates, the best advice for beginning ( and intermediate, at least) Lojbanists is "Don't use {le}". There is very little you can do with {le} that you can't do as well, or better, with {lo}. Indeed, a fairly large percentage of uses of the former in the corpus are either flat wrong or unnecessary, even among the more recent entries. ( I have no data to back this claim up beyond just noticing how often it turns up inappropriately.). Since you are dealing with Russian speakers, you don't have the "a-the" problem of Western European languages to overcome and so can introduce {lo broda} for nouns in general. Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. |