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la xod cusku di'e
> Do you guys sign on to the larger scheme of
> http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/Towards%20a%20complete%20gadri%20picture
> , with the exception perhaps of the definitions of Any and Nonspecific,
> which I must ponder some more.
My preference would be to reserve loi for substance rather than
collective, given that collective is already easily covered by
XS le/lo. (Substance is covered, too, but marked with tu'o.)
I wouldn't introduce loi'a/loi'e, just because I think we
already have an excess of gadri, but I'm not strongly opposed
either.
As for lo'e/le'e, I'm not sure you have them well defined as "mode".
If I say {lo'e broda cu blabi}, does that mean that there are more
white brodas than brodas of any other colour? But what counts as a
colour? Does "non-white" count as a colour? If in general non-brode
counts as an alternative value to brode, then {lo'e broda cu brode}
will always be reduced to claiming that a majority of broda are
brode. (Otherwise the mode would be non-brode.)
In general, for {lo'e broda cu brode}, what counts as alternative
properties to brode, to sort brodas into, so that you can ascertain
that being brode is indeed the mode among those? Is it left to
context?
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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