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de'i li 2002-10-25 ti'u li 01:42:00 la xorxes. cusku di'e
>> > > (Hopefully we won't waste {lo'e} on this. It is not the
>> > > kind of thing we say all the time such that it requires
>> > > a special gadri.)
>> >
>> > It's not a very gadri-ish meaning, so for that reason isn't
>> > a prime candidate for {lo'e}, but I don't see why the form
>> > {lo'e} is so precious that we mustn't waste it. Monosyllabic
>> > cmavo are ultraprecious (& with hindsight, many of those
>> > were squandered), but oodles of disyllabics are available.
>>
>> {lo'e} has a couple of practical advantages over other
>> disyllabics: (1) it is recognized by parsers, so that you can
>> check your grammar if you use it (I almost never actually
>> use the parsers, but anyway) and (2) it appears on word lists,
>> so that people new to the language can at least know it is
>> a gadri.
'tu'o (lo)' is the recognized-by-parsers, listed-in-word-lists version
of 'lo'ei' for those who want such a thing but don't want to assign
it to 'lo'e', and also I think that it is 100% CLL-compatible.
mu'o mi'e .adam.