On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
While not denying the badness of the model not being consistent, you do realize that you can add additional places in utterance to gismu without fanfare, right? "mi tixnu la djan lo za'i {adopt}" -> "mi tixnu la djan do'e la za'i {adopt}". And it wouldn't be hard for the listener/reader to understand the nature of the "x3" place.
Yes, I know. In the particular case of the familial relationship valsi, I would not be surprised if people often assumed that the word /did/ have a "by bond" x3 if someone filled three places in such a bridi. Which is why I've decided to "pretend" they all /do/ have that x3, regardless of the currently official definition, because it doesn't harm anything and it's actually friggin' useful to boot.
I was responding to gleki's plea, in an attempt to explain how changing the place structure of the exception valsi to match the rest of their groups' would be a /good/ thing. It has nothing to do with the Lojban translation of the comic.