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Re: [bpfk] {cifnu}. Clarifying the semantics of the gismu



On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:09 AM, la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
Now: {cifnu} = x1 is an infant/baby [helpless through youth/incomplete development] of species x2. |>>> Also infantile.  See also makcu, verba.

Proposed: {cifnu} = x1 is an infant, baby, young offspring of species x2. |>>> Not necessarily helpless. See also makcu, verba, panzi.

Reason: a discussion shows that one shouldn't paid attention to "infant", "helpless" and "infantile" words. Separate words for "altricial/precocial", stages of development like larvae, imago etc. and for immature/mature are to be invented instead.

Sounds reasonable. Is there a way to implement this while keeping the original wording available for reference? Many gismu definitions need improvement, but we probably want to keep the original wording safe somewhere as a historical record.
 
mu'o mi'e xorxes

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