Making a word usable for more situations doesn't neces= sarily make it more useful. It just changes the meaning, rather drastically= . There may be a place for the predicate you're looking for, but {vindu= } has a short, simple meaning. I can say {.e'unai vindu} and that says = all you need to say. With your "x1 is actively affecting the biochemis= try of x2 with effects x3" meaning, we'd need to graft on a {xlali= } and a {kakne} to get there.

Or let vagueness do the work for= you, which is what we typically do. All past uses of {vindu} can be unders= tood from context as have "bad" in the vindu3 and having implicit= ka'e. This change would not break usage and would provide with a word = that is so ridiculously more useful. At last, we can make a work for "= drunk" in the chemical sense, rather than {xalbebna}, which isn't = even jvajvo.

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la xalbo cu cusku di'e

If you want to say that someone is actually experie= ncing the poison, use {bilma}. I do think there's room for the symptoms= in vindu3, though. But I don't want to see the word broadened to such = a point that it could mean anything, but to actually mean anything specific= , you'd need a paragraph.

You seem to contradict yourself here. To s= ay that someone is actually experiencing the poison, we need a paragraph, i= f we follow your suggestion of using {bilma}. Anyway, =A0"a paragraph&= quot; is such a huge exaggeration of what this change would do. Rather than= make a word so unnecessarily specific such as vindu as it is now, making i= t broader will allow for more expressivity.

.i la stivos cu cusku di'e

Assuming a new word is necessary for the= meaning desired, it's always better to create a new word, e.g., vi'= ;indu, and let the old stand as is. Then if the new word is more useful and= used more often, then the old word will fade away.=A0

I am all in fav= or of small changes, such as making argument places consistent, which I reg= ard as a fix, but changing "vindu" in the way described is not a = fix, but a general change to a word that's not broken.=A0=A0

Making an entirely new word, such as a zi'evla, def= eats the purpose of even having such broad words. Broad words are great *fo= r lujvo*, which are a mess to produce out of anything that doesn't have= a rafsi, namely zi'evla. Also, context is everything, as we time and t= ime again prove by even *speaking* in #lojban.=A0

*Precise* words should be zi'evla, as compounding t= hem further becomes less interesting as their precision increases.

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o