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[lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:58 PM, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
> What you lose by doing that is decreased readability/usability of Lojban
> texts written previous to the change. You would, for example, have to search
> on both variants to research usage examples.
I think of its analogy to the British vs American English.
> Also, it would wreak havoc with
> the rafsi (sku and dzu at least would have to go).
Yes, some would.
> But really {spotu} is not a better word than {spofu} -- it's not "jbomau", it's not easier to
> learn, it doesn't sound better.
What do you mean by "jbomau"? Why should {spofu} be *more Lojbanic*
than {spotu}? Is "color" more English than "colour"?
The etymology says it has two source words with "t" (tut & rot), and
none with "f". So, how is {spofu} easier to learn than {spotu} from
the perspective of the source languages' speakers? And why should the
former even sound better?
> Also, strict adherence to the gismu
> construction principles are rendered questionable by the fact that language
> community sizes have *very* wide error bars.
>
> mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
But we are a community of a *constructed* language after all.
mu'o mi'e tijlan