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> > > no broda goi ko'a cu brode .i je ko'a cu brodi
> > >
> In my opinion, binding a variable to nothing is different than an
> unbound variable. I would say that the second sentence means exactly:
>
> no broda cu brodi

But that's not how {ko'a} works in general, it would be a very
idiosyncratic use in Lojban, and not backed up by anything in
natlangs either. {ko'a} does not repeat words, it repeats
referrents.

In English you can't say "nothing brodas, and it brodes"
to mean "nothing brodas and nothing brodes". "It" is not
used to repeat the word "nothing".

In Lojban, all of these would be equally meaningless:

no da broda ije ri brode

no da broda ije le go'i cu brode

no da goi ko'a broda ije ko'a brode

{ri}, {le go'i} and {ko'a} just fail to pick up any referent,
so the second sentence is just meaningless. none of those
cases is equivalent to:

no da broda ije no de brode

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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