From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:59:26 2010 Reply-To: Chris A Bogart Sender: Lojban list Date: Wed Nov 13 16:13:24 1996 From: Chris A Bogart Subject: Re: place switching cmavo... X-To: lojban%cuvmb.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199611131752.KAA02444@indra.com> X-UIDL: 89f511f467973d5d82a542e934c203bc Status: RO X-Mozilla-Status: 0015 Content-Length: 772 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Nov 13 16:13:24 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - Message-ID: > On 1996-11-12 "Trevor C. Hill" writes: > > ... It seems to me that because the places are, for the most part, > > ordered by frequency of use, these words should simply take a certain > > place (x2 for se) and put it at the front, leaving the other places in > > their original order... > (because you usually want to fill x1 and so need "fa" as well as "se".) I agree with this observation, although I don't favor changing it, since I think giving up on the baseline would be far more damaging to the language. I do think swapping is better than shifting in the case of "te" -- consider the usefulness of "te dunda". But "xe klama" will often require "fu", and for some reason the fa-fu series has always struck me as awkward. Chris