Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [lojban] Idea about taxonomic vocabualry
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I was thinking about stevo's `CV` categorized gismu (still would like to 
see that, btw) and recently reading about the notion of taxonomic languages 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_language) when a neat idea 
struck me. If the the first three letters of a gismu related all such words 
--for the sake of argument let's say all fruit words started with `fru`, so 
then `frupa` might mean apple, `furba` banana, `furca` strawberry, etc. 
then my idea is that there could be a special cmavo that created a "group 
context", call it `xi'o... xi'u` and then one could say thins like:

    fruxi'o pa .e ba .e ca [xi'u]

Which would be the same as

    frupa .e fruba .e fruca

Of course this cmavo is a little odd b/c it works more like an inflection. 
And unfortunately Lojban doesn't have any sort of taxonomic vocabulary 
whatsoever. So it doesn't really fly. But I thought it was a neat idea 
anyway, so I thought I'd share.

.trans.

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<div dir=3D"ltr">I was thinking about stevo's `CV` categorized gismu (still=
 would like to see that, btw) and recently reading about the notion of taxo=
nomic languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_language) when=
 a neat idea struck me. If the the first three letters of a gismu related a=
ll such words --for the sake of argument let's say all fruit words started =
with `fru`, so then `frupa` might mean apple, `furba` banana, `furca` straw=
berry, etc. then my idea is that there could be a special cmavo that create=
d a "group context", call it `xi'o... xi'u` and then one could say thins li=
ke:<div><br></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; fruxi'o pa .e ba .e ca [xi'u]</div><di=
v><br></div><div>Which would be the same as</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;=
 &nbsp; frupa .e fruba .e fruca<br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course this=
 cmavo is a little odd b/c it works more like an inflection. And unfortunat=
ely Lojban doesn't have any sort of taxonomic vocabulary whatsoever. So it =
doesn't really fly. But I thought it was a neat idea anyway, so I thought I=
'd share.</div><div><br></div><div>.trans.</div><div><br></div></div>

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