[lojban] Re: zo'e, zi'o (was: Re: use of ko'a)

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

cltk (who ar you?):
> [And Rosta:]
> 
> > The last time this was discussed (on jboske), the eventual consensus
> > among
> > the discussants (including me & Lojbab; I can't remember who else)
> > was that
> > zo'e can be zi'o. But overt zo'e cannot in good Gricean faith be
> 
> (Perhaps I should be posting to jboske, but I thought I would rant
> here first.)
> 
> This is bad -- if it becomes official, I will have to rename the
> language "tolylojban". The main problem is that each gismu can acquire
> many meanings, so instead of a single predicate tavla(w, x, y, z) we
> have several underlying predicates tavla_0() (for e.g. {tavla}),
> tavla_1(w) (for e.g. {mi tavla}), tavla_2(x, y) (for e.g. {tavla do
> ri}), etc. And I thought the Lojban creators were bent on removing
> polysemy...
> 
> Besides, there are better ways to solve the gismu blotation problem
> than to muck up the semantics of the whole language, such as removing
> little-used role places, and creating lujvo for specific senses.
> 
> Sorry, just had to rant.

Or contribute to the BF, where this will presumably come up. I would
have sent this to the BF forum, but I'm not sure who you are, so can't
be sure you're there.

Re blotation, removing little-used role places is not a politically 
acceptable solution. Usage has proved that creating lujvo is not a
workable solution either; people just ignore unwanted places.

Re tolylogji, it is a basic principle of Lojban design that concision
is inversely proportional to precision, and ellipsis and vagueness
generally go hand in hand. The vagueness in question -- between
alternative tavla predicates -- is resolvable by avoiding the 
ellipsis.

--And.



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