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Re: [lojban] cmegadri valfendi preti



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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