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Adam:
> la xorxes. cusku di'e
>
> >>lo'e has a defined meaning already, and it's a
> >>much needed meaning; it *is* how you say "I like chocolate"
> >
> >
> > Of course it is!
>
> So if we have 'mi nelci lo'e cakla' --> 'mi kairnei le ka ce'u du lo
> cakla'. Going on the buska:sisku analogy, I would say that this would be
> true if one likes only white chocolate wrapped in a red ribbon given to
> one on one's birthday by one's sweetheart, whether or not such a
> situation has never occured, so I am not sure that your lo'e is specific
> enough for 'I like chocolate'
>
> On the other hand, as I understand it, while 'broda lo'e brode' doesn't
> imply that 'broda lo brode', 'broda lo brode' does imply that 'broda
> lo'e brode'. So, once again with chocolate, if one ordinarily dislikes
> almost every piece of chocolate, but that last piece just hit the spot,
> then 'nelci lo cakla' and thus 'nelci lo'e cakla' is true, though 'likes
> chocolate' certainly isn't
I completely agree. Leaving aside what {lo'e} means, you correctly
characterize {lo'ei}.
To say "I like chocolate", I would say {mi nelci loi'e cakla} -- "I
like the chocolate-type you get by abstracting away from the differences
among chocolate-tokens".
--And.