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Re: [lojban] Re: emotions
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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