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On 5/25/2015 10:06 AM, TR NS wrote:
> lojbab, your reply was enlightening. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
>
> The only thing I do not get is the gait argument on bajra. I don't see
> how that can be filled other then with attributive words like masno
> (slow) or sutra (fast). If you put a word that means "gallop" or "trot"
> than why would you need bajra -- you already have a word for gallop or trot.

When the gismu words and place structures were created, there were no 
words for gallop or trot, and I don't know them now (I don't use any of 
the online dictionaries if I can avoid it) or what is in their place 
structures.

We didn't design the place structures knowing what and how they could be 
filled in Lojban, but rather what the word meanings required, figuring 
that someone would figure out how to fill them later - I couldn't even 
define the 4 legged gaits in English, much less Lojban).  In most cases, 
if it isn't obvious how to fill in a place, it probably requires an 
abstraction sumti (LE+NU clause).  If the created word for gallop has a 
usable place structure, one could use "lo nu [gallop]" as a gait sumti 
in bajra.

lojbab

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