[lojban-beginners] Re: User interfacing in Lojban..

["komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Yoav Nir <yoav.nir@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:35 PM, H. Felton <fagricipni@gmail.com> wrote:

> H. Felton wrote:
>> So, "sisku" _can_ mean "ko sisku"?
>
> In general (if I understand correctly), any part of Lojban speech can be
> omitted when grammatically unambiguous.  In this case, the context
> (application command) makes it fairly clear who is to perform the search.

If it were not a command; eg, "do sisku", "lo nixli cu sisku"; I'd not
have been uncertain, the conversion to a command that "ko" does is
something that I would not have thought could be elided.

I think you're right, but if doesn't matter to the present question. "File" does not mean anything either by itself, and neither does "Font". 

For UI we give up grammatical purity in all languages in favor of brevity. No reason why lojban should be different.

{sisku} expands to {zo'e cu sisku zo'e zo'e vau}. Generally speaking, a bridi with an elided x1 is interpreted as an observative, but it doesn't have to be. So yeah {ko} can be elided, & I think it's appropriate in the UI context (& perhaps not many others). mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan