From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Thu Sep 19 09:16:21 1991 Return-Path: Date: Thu Sep 19 09:16:21 1991 Message-Id: <9109190500.AA01525@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!nsn Sender: Lojban list From: cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!nsn Subject: dikyjvo X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: nsn@ee.mu.oz.au To: John Cowan , List Reader Status: RO How about this as a discussion base for dikyjvo on lojban: 1. the places of a lujvo should be a subset of the places of the component gismu. 2. the places of the last gismu in the lujvo take precedence (appear first, etc.) 3. places from a single given gismu in the lujvo, wherever scattered within the lujvo, should preferably appear in the order they appear in the original gismu. 4. the analysis of relation between gismu components in lujvo may be used to restrict the meanings possible (there is nothing wrong with verboten-ing the equivalent of adjective-noun from lujvo space - redhair != red hair. Esperanto did this long ago). The analysis broda tai lo brode, however, has been missing from existing formulations. and for le'avla: y should be allowed within le'avla. without that, it is impractical to allow any lujvo to be a le'avla prefix. Anyone run with this?