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la xorxes. cusku di'e

> It is possible to say *anything you want* in lojban, which is not to
> say that it's always easy. (Is that too strong a claim? :)

It {mabla} better well {ba'e} not be too strong, or we don't have a language:
we have a restricted-use code, in principle no more interesting than the
international ship-to-ship flag signals.

BTW, I support all of your points in this debate, including notably the
Lojbab/Nora place structure, and the notion that cfika/prosa/pemci/draci/etc.
do the job for the other concept of "book".

--
John Cowan              sharing account <lojbab@access.digex.net> for now
                e'osai ko sarji la lojban.