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Re: [bpfk] {gunma}, {selcmi} and gadri definitions
Ilmen, On 09/09/2014 14:15:
I don't like very much the idea of using the sel- rafsi in a
non-compositional way, for making lujvo of the form {selbroda} whose
meaning cannot be derived from {se broda}. It seems there's a pretty
wide implicit agreement that the sel/ter/vel/xel rafsi should be
regular (semantically compositional).
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. A secondary function of lujvo is that sometimes they're shorter, but given that brevity is only a marginal consideration in Lojban design, the key grammatical characteristic of lujvohood is noncompositionality, with the rafsi having merely a kind of mnemonic function.
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