I recall reading on= ce a post by xorxes I think, reducing the selma'o into a handful, although = if I recall correctly, it was pretty drastic.

.i mi'e la= tsani mu'o

On 19 September 2012 15:43, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 a= t 3:14 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de&= gt; wrote:
Am 19.09.2012 20:59, schrieb MorphemeAddict:

Looking at the cloud of selma'o (grammatical classes) at vlasisku makes me = wonder. Is there any way to drastically reduce the number of selma'o?

There are some ways to reduce it a little bit, for example merging lots of = connective selma'o (JOI, JA, VUhU) and removing some "unncessary" ones like= CAI and NAI and RAhO and moving them all to UI etc. But you'd still end up= with a high number of selma'o I think. Another way to get rid of a lot of = selma'o is to use grammatical tone, like gua\spi. That language only has fi= ve selma'o.

This tinkering with the selma'o woul= d result in an insignificant reduction in their number. Gua\spi may get by = with only five 'selma'o', but it's not just because it uses tones.
The large number of Lojban selma'o strikes me as way overblown. <= /div>

stevo

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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