Re: xo'e and noda

[Colin Fine <C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK>]

cu'u la lojbab
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There is a significant different between these two words/concepts, based on
the logical foundation of the language.  (Regardless of which place of
zbasu you are trying to eliminate - which I think we need to agree on since
the error is causing confusion - I will presume the "maker" place, which is
x1, since that is what caused the original confusion).
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I believe it was I that caused that confusion, subsequently corrected by
Iain, but still apparently around. I was indeed thinking of removing the
'maker' place

        zbasu faxo'e

but erroneously produced a form with xo'e in the x3.

Bob's analysis of 'noda' is very welcome, and reminds us of something we were
forgetting. It is clear that xo'e means something very different from 'noda'
- it is closer to "na'eroda" but still not the same.

I am still very suspicious of xo'e - Richard Shroeder's examples (discussed
by Lojbab) illustrate precisely the danger - but I have a clearer
understanding now of what it means. It is just that, like Bob, I can't get my
head round what specific examples of it mean.

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