[lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan."

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:21:06PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > One additional advantage of the CMENE = BRIVLA move is that it
> > > allows things like {la mikce jivagos} or {la famti tom}.
> > 
> > Both of which are easy to construct other ways; 'zei' in particular.
> 
> {zei} makes lujvo, not the same thing.

\/\/hatever.  la mikce me la jivagos me'u, then.  What, this comes up in
everyday speech for you?

> But the main advantage is the reduction in useless proliferation of
> selma'o. 

Not useless; it's already been shown that the proliferation allows
eliding of a syllable in a very, very common case, which seems important
to me.

-Robin

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