[lojban-beginners] Re: Experimental cmavo was: du'e preti

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 4/16/08, Brett Williams <mungojelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "zo'oi", as xorxes said.  "la'oi" and "zo'oi" are the only experimental
> cmavo that are widely used and known these days.

Hard to tell what is widely known, but if I had to guess, I'd say
{ja'ai} has been the most successful. I have also used {xa'o}
("already") fairly often, and I find it quite useful. Also perhaps
{mu'ei}.  (I don't really like proposing new cmavo, but I have
adopted at least those three proposed by others.)

> There's a cmavo I've heard occasionally which is used to quote onomatopoeia,
> does anyone remember that one?

{ki'ai} (mnemonic: krixa)
But it's meant for using onomatopoeia, not quoting them.

> There's a wiki page with some old proposals:
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Currently+Proposed+Experimental+Cmavo&bl
> None of those are active, to my knowledge.  There's a lot of different stuff
> about multiple worlds; must have been someone's trip sometime. :)

I think {mu'ei} does have some usefulness:

ro mu'ei: necessarily
me'i mu'ei: not necessarily
su'o mu'ei (=ka'e?): possibly
no mu'ei: impossible

mu'o mi'e xorxes