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Re: [lojban] cmegadri valfendi preti
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- Subject: Re: [lojban] cmegadri valfendi preti
- From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:25:42 -0500
- In-reply-to: <02120414202304.01986@neofelis>
At 02:20 PM 12/4/02 -0500, Pierre wrote:
Another question: why is the cmegadri broken off from what precedes it,
To make life easy. The goal, as I've said before, is to make it easy for
the listener/processor. There exist possible fu'ivla and possible cmene
which could in theory be separated, but which might be more difficult in
some environments, or where coming up with a concise statement of the rule
is not possible.
Since maximizing the use of these is NOT a Lojban design priority, we opted
for the easy to state rule, rather than a more difficult rule that might
allow some perfectly resolvable names or fu'ivla, but where the learner
will have trouble with the rule.
instead of just breaking between the cmene and the cmegadri and leaving the
cmegadri to be found later? What about {MUstelaVIson} and {muSTElaVIson}? How
should they be analyzed?
The former looks to me like "muste la vison"; the latter like an error
because I want to see it as "mu stela vison", which is ungrammatical - the
name cannot be preceded by a gismu, but only by "la" or doi".
lojbab
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