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Re: [lojban] Re: Beginner's take on the open/closed gismu debate (was: Re: emotions)



At 11:01 PM 5/27/03 +0100, Robin Turner wrote:
BTW, Chinese does this to an extent most English people or even
Lojbanists would find astounding.  One of my Chinese teachers at
university unconsciously transferred this to English and referredd to
the external examiner as the "exterminator".

I wouldn't be surprised at all %^). I was told about this in 1986-7. That is precisely where my long-standing dicta encouraging people to make "nonce lujvo" and not wait for a dictionary came from. I expected the dictionary workers to them collect the ones that were used and decide based on usage and logicality which ones were worthy of recognition. The noralujv is the collection, but the analysis was aborted.


lojbab

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