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Subject: [lojban] Re: Beginner's take on the open/closed gismu debate (was: Re: emotions)
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Speaking as an absolute beginner, aren't lujvo by definition a nonce construction? And isn't that a good thing, because it allows the writer to express concepts unlimited by dictionaries and Academies of Language?

Regards,

Tim


On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:14:15AM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 tk1@despammed.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > With regard to the current debate on whether gismu should be open or closed,
> > I am not very sure what my position is, but I think a more pernicious
> > problem is the tendency for some users to introduce nonce lujvo (e.g. in
> > Chapter 2 of "Alice in Wonderland", I see the word "camri'ojvebla" (?!?)).
> 
> 
> I assume this was created in intentional distinction from camblari'o?
> 
> {ru'a ba'e gau le finti ra frica zo camblari'o le kamsmuni}
> 
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