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On 28 October 2010 10:34, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I would not be surprised if hypothetical future native speakers of lojban would find this shortcut very convenient, though...
>
> Is not shortcut, is wrong.
> Not think is good.
>
>>_>
>
> It's not a shortcut, it's just wrong. It means "I'm capable of a
> runner." and that's always what it will mean. Nobody that -actually-
> speaks Lojban would agree with your sentiments. lo bajra will always
> be a runner, and lo nu bajra will always be an event of being a runner
> (or "running"), and the day that it stops working like that is the day
> that I give up on Lojban forever. It would introduce vast amounts of
> ambiguity to have implicit abstractors, and has always been rejected.

How exactly is "a runner" different from "an event of being a runner"?
If X is a runner, doesn't X represent an event of being a runner?

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