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Discussion of "gu'au"
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Comment #6: Re: lu'o
gleki (Thu Aug 28 17:04:12 2014)

durka42 wrote:
> gleki wrote:
> > durka42 wrote:
> > > gleki wrote:
> > > > durka42 wrote:
> > > > > Why is this needed when lu'o exists?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > fi'o gunma proposed by latro'a.
> > > >
> > > > The advantage is to explain the grammar in fewer selma'o.
> > > It doesn't seem like LAhE is going away anytime soon.
> >
> > The same question goes for la'e. It doesn't explain a lot. tu'a is
> > even worse (just use lo su'u co'e).
> >
> > >
> > > > Don't multiply entities when the sufficient tools are at hand
> already!
> > > Uh... yes? That was exactly the motivation for my question.
> >
> > lu'o doesnt explain distributivity. What bridi is it based on?
> > Whereas fi'o gunma is pretty straightforward and you know what
> brivla
> > is inside.
>
> I guess I would advocate for writing Lojban definitions of la'e and
> lu'o and the rest instead of adding more cmavo. gu'au je fa is
> kind of unwieldy and doesn't even work without tag unification.

la'e ~= lo se sinxa be lo

I can't see any ways of expressing loi otherwise than what is presented.
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