[lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos

["Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Marjorie Scherf <skaryzgik@gmail.com> wrote:
But isn't one
> of Lojban's core principles that it is designed to avoid unnecessary
> ambiguities?

Yes. But merely having two forms of gismu for one definition is no
cause of ambiguities. We already have this rule where more than two
sounds mutually correspond to one lerfu (e.g. /r/) on the condition
that the set of correspondence/relation is exclusive i.e. each sound
is represented by only one lerfu (under a particular writing system).
Similarly, the current semantic order of gismu would remain
undestroyed if we have {spofu} & {spotu} for anything but "broken",
for example; one idea per one word, one meaning per one usage.

The problem is their rafsi, as pointed out by komfo,amonan.

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