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Re: [bpfk] {gunma}, {selcmi} and gadri definitions
John Cowan, On 09/09/2014 22:46:
And Rosta scripsit:
That dislike and agreement strike me as not very rational. The
principal grammatical function of lujvo relative to phrases is to
signal noncompositionality -- a sense other than, and typically more
specific than, the sense of the unlujvoized phrasal counterpart.
I'd say that's no longer really true. Lujvo provide brevity (sometimes)
and satisfy the desire to have separate words for things. They also
allow cmavo, particularly grouping cmavo, to be omitted: broda ke brode
brodi can be reduced to brodybrode brodi.
with the rafsi having merely a kind of mnemonic function.
That's much too strong a claim for modern Lojban usage. They may not
be fully compositional, but they are not merely hints.
I defer to you on this, since I am no longer capable of getting a reliable sense of modern Lojban usage.
Presumably, fully-compositional lujvo would not appear in the dictionary, while less-than-fully-composition lujvo would. If some lujvo are predictably fully-compositional, presumably this -- the relevant morphological rules and rafsi -- will have to be added to the documentation for the next version of Lojban?
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