From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jun 21 15:22:48 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MIVR2-0002gC-8m for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:22:48 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MIVQy-0002fx-FK for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:22:48 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:2000:2a0:c9ff:feab:76e2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9790B9478A for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:16:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id n5LMGH8x023730 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:16:17 +0200 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id n5LMGHB7023729 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:16:17 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:16:17 +0200 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Regarding the gismu {vlagi}. Message-ID: <20090621221617.GD23324@nvg.org> References: <479039.23077.qm@web50403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090621202955.GC23324@nvg.org> <836491.16571.qm@web50405.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <836491.16571.qm@web50405.mail.re2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-archive-position: 15683 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:40:13PM -0700, Lindar Greenwood wrote: > > Couldn't this word be freed up to be used for another word? The Lojban community wants the language to be stable, and the LLG is committed to that goal. If a gismu form were to be re-used for another word, it would have to be as an absolute last resort to fill a desperate need. I can't imagine what kind of circumstances that would be, since there is no shortage of unassigned gismu forms that could be used for new meanings. > So, tl;dr could you explain your reasoning a bit better? Please do read the link, it explains it much better than I could do. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Learn languages! The more languages you know, the more incomprehensible you can get. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.