Re: [lojban] Re: emotions

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:43 AM 5/28/03 +0000, jjllambias2000 wrote:
>la lojbab cusku di'e
> > Which is a good reason to resist them.  You understand the word
>without a
> > place structure, and you have a bunch on 1-place predicates - the
>language
> > isn't much of a predicate language if most relations are unary.
>
>But none of those would be 1-placers. (And in any case, why would
>exptal gismu differ from fu'ivla in this respect?)

Precisely the question.  fu'ivla are second rate not-quite-lojban words, 
usually concocted on the fly without a lot of thought because they were 
needed to talk about things in an area of specialty.  gismu are the 
fundamental roots of the language, supposedly the most carefully reviewed 
area of the language.  I want to keep the distinction quite clear.  lujvo 
are greatly preferred to fu'ivla even at the expense of length because they 
are internal to the language, and are capable of being analyzed for a 
predicted place structure, even if usage does not necessarily abide by jvojva.

lojbab

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