[lojban] Re: Trying to follow XXS

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I believe that Robin explicitly migrated to Tiki because it allows true
forum discussions based on wiki pages.



On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rob Speer wrote:

> As someone who hasn't been part of the involved jboske discussions, I
> find XXS to be a very pleasing gadri system. In general, I like the idea
> of changing the meaning of {lo PA} and letting the other gadri keep
> something like their original meanings.
>
> (See
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=XXS:%20Extended%20XS%20proposal
> for what I'm referring to.)
>
> However, some things strike me as bafflingly odd about it. I'd mention
> this on the Wiki, but there's already such a teeming mass of commentary
> around all the proposed gadri systems (and, as far as I can tell, rather
> limited RecentChanges functionality on Tiki) that any new comments would
> be lost in the mess.
>
> * What's all this about xod-collectives? Is there some reason that lVi
> should be this construct instead of the usual fuzzy collective?
> * Why is alternative B there? If you want to make a distributive
> into a collective, you should just use {lu'o}, not rearrange the
> meanings of several cmavo to make way for your new word that does this.
> I'm no conservative, but that's an absurd amount of tinkering.
> * What's with the change to MOI tacked on? It seems like a good idea if
> I understand it correctly (let {memimoi} be just {mimoi}), but what does
> it have to do with gadri? Shouldn't it be a separate issue?
>
>

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