In a nutshell, I say it should be trashe= d. Thrown away. Why? Read the paper, and then tell me what you think :)

As selpa'i already mentioned this system= once existed and it was called N-paradigm (http://loglan.org/Paradigms/par= adigm_n.html).

After that Lojban was created. It tried to f= ix that system by introducing BAI class of cmavo.

You mention Rus= sian and as a native speaker of Russian I can wholeheartedly say that I hat= e it's case system.

Indeed, only 6 cases (or only = 12 cases like in Loglan) lead to raising of terrible metaphors in the langu= age.

Is it bad? For Lojban as a linguistic/logical/philosophical = tool it's bad. For Lojban as a possible spoken language? I don't know.

After all we do have this case system even in the curr= ent Lojban.

e.g. {fa'a} roughly corresponds to Dative case.

We can say {mi dunda ti fa'a do} (I give this towards you) but it'll b= e kinda metaphor.

But yes, no one can stop you fro= m speaking such Lojban.

so BAI can be used instead of FA.

As for SE they can be replaced with jai BAI, e.g.

{do jai fa'a= dunda ti fai mi} =3D you are given this-thing by me.

<= /div>

So your proposal is okay. Just continue learning the vocab and th= e grammar and we'll be happy to hear you speaking your own style of metapho= rical Lojban.

Isn't it what most flexible languages in the world = should allow for? ;)

I'll preface i= t (I did say this in the paper as all) with this: I don't think it's an = awful system. Nor am I gonna be angry if everybody hates it. Keep = in mind that I just blazed through a ten page paper, and didn't take a whol= e lot of time to revise my thoughts. I just wanted to get my thoughts down = and organize them for myself. Doing so was best achieved by writing a paper= about it, and that ended up being too much work to keep it to myself. I'm = interested by what others think. It would be unbelievably cool if my ideas = could be implemented, but I don't necessarily expect it.

It is attached to this post. Enjoy!

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