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BPFK Section: Indirect Referers

Re: BPFK Section: Indirect Referers
There were way too many programmers in the development of Loglan/Lojban; only computer languages use these critters enough to give them the right to these handy forms. Of course, that is partly because ordinary languages regularly ignore some of the distinctions involved, so a logical language ought to provide for these. And of course it does, with ordinary sumti built on {sinxa} and {cmima} and the like.
Of the lot, {li} seems the most likely to be of regular use.
{la'e} seems to occur almost exclusively with pronouns referring to recent or near future utterances, which combinations probably deserve pronouns of their own rather than compounds, both elements of which see little independent activity.
Did we start to take plurals seriously (or systematically, if you think we already are serious about them), the ones for moving into and out of groups might serve to give the distributivity of occurrences of sumti not covered by other conventions and so come to some prominence.
The rest are of dubious value altogether and could easily be dropped, just as some of the useful ones would be better in other categories.