[lojban-beginners] Re: mi kakne lo bajra

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> I would not be surprised if hypothetical future native speakers of lojban would find this shortcut very convenient, though...

Is not shortcut, is wrong.
Not think is good.

>_>

It's not a shortcut, it's just wrong. It means "I'm capable of a
runner." and that's always what it will mean. Nobody that -actually-
speaks Lojban would agree with your sentiments. lo bajra will always
be a runner, and lo nu bajra will always be an event of being a runner
(or "running"), and the day that it stops working like that is the day
that I give up on Lojban forever. It would introduce vast amounts of
ambiguity to have implicit abstractors, and has always been rejected.
That's called "sumti raising" and is probably worse than malgli.

How would it be a shortcut, anyway? It's one phoneme.

(Sorry for getting huffy. I did this when I was new as well. Just... -
don't- do it. We do things the way they're done for a very good
reason, and we've been doing it for at least a score longer than you.
Rather than suggest we change something, learn why we do it.)

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