[lojban] Re: Trying to follow XXS

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la rab.spir cusku di'e

> 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.

New comments posted as "comments" are lost because they are
not announced anywhere (as far as I know). At least they won't be
noticed much unless someone happens to check that page. But if you 
comment under "discuss", there is a mailing list where this will go 
to (the wiki-discuss list), so that would be the best forum to use 
for this. 

> * What's all this about xod-collectives? Is there some reason that lVi
> should be this construct instead of the usual fuzzy collective?

The ususal collective is handled in XS by bare {lo PA}/{le PA}, so 
this proposal is to give the lVi forms a more restricted meaning.

> * 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.

{lu'o} won't do what alternative B wants, at least not in any well 
understood manner. But we don't have a consensus on what lu'o does
in any case.

> * 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?

I'm not sure it can be implemented though, maintaining the parser
constraints.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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