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mi pu cusku di'e
> For lu'i, lu'o and vu'i we first need to understand what they
> mean. Do they take cmima or selcmima? (Presumably all three
> would be the same in this regard.) They can't take either,
> because then there is an ambiguity, if ko'a has members
> we don't know whether lu'i ko'a is a set with member ko'a
> or a set with the members of ko'a as its members.
Adding to that, if they take members it is easy to get the
ones that take selcmima: {lu'i ro lu'a}, {lu'o ro lu'a}
and {vu'i ro lu'a}. OTOH, if they take selcmima, there is
no easy conversion the other way.
Now, assuming they take members, the intention clearly was
that {lu'i ko'a} means the same as {lu'i ko'a e no drata be ko'a}.
(Digression: Perhaps {nardu'o} is more accurate than {drata}.
It is in fact the most drastic {drata}: {drata fi le ka ce'u du
makau}.)
But if that is what it means, then lu'i is a more complex beast
than the other LAhEs, since it cannot be reduced to any
{lo broda be}, it is {lo selcmi be ... e no drata}. I'm not sure
what the advantages of that would be. I can see some disadvantages.
For example {lu'i ko'a na.enai ko'e} does not mean what I would
expect it to mean.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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