[lojban-beginners] Re: rafsi instead of gismu in songs

On the other hand, many songs are actually grammatically incorrect. One common manifestation of this is in repeating words or parts of words, e.g. “Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb”. Having a grammatically-correct song that fits in the proper meter to use in the rhythm of the tune can be very difficult, and is often not done. Perhaps an interesting topic of discussion for the lojban list (i.e., not the beginners list) could be about how to more effectively use lojban in music or metered poetry—making it fit without loosing understandability.

And that’s not even considering the song lyrics specifically designed not to make sense.

mu'omi’e skaryzgik.

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Subject: [lojban-beginners] rafsi instead of gismu in songs

In a message dated 4/4/2008 04:22:26 AM Central Daylight Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:

From: "LakMeer Kravid" <lakmeerkravid@gmail.com>
Subject: [lojban-beginners] A few small questions

coi rodo
I have a few questions:
..3) How badly would it screw with my grammar if I were to use a
one-syllable rafsi in the place of a gismu, for rhythmic purposes in
songwriting? It probably ceases to be parsable, but is it forgivable
under the banner of 'artistic license'?

It would totally confuse me. And it would definitely (not just probably) be unparseable, at least with the intended meaning.

stevo