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On 9/15/2014 5:45 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Admittedly, I don't think it very likely that a change proposal for the
> morphology would be very likely, but again, that really depends on the
> change itself. I mean, everyone knows the mekso portion of it is
> completely borked right now, so if someone managed to come up with a
> mekso that wasn't, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it voted in.

*I* don't know that mekso is borked.  I rather strongly suspect that we 
overdesigned it to handle *everything* that could be expressed in 
formulaic forms (because that was a fundamental requirement), and very 
few people know why much of the design is there (since rarely does 
anyone use more than one formulaic notation at a time).

A much simpler subset of Mex is what should be taught, leaving the bulk 
of it to deal with stuff that is rarely used, but retaining it for when 
someone wants to express APL (the programming language) in Lojban, 
compare Polish and reverse Polish notation schema, or to talk about 
combining "an exaltation of doves" with "a gaggle of geese".

lojbab

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