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

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

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > {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?

(You usually won't need {me'u} there.) Modification of names with
brivla I would class as everyday speech, yes.

> > 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.

To me it is better if you just have to learn one pattern
(LE BRIVLA CU BRIVLA) instead of (LE/LA BRIVLA CU BRIVLA)
and (LA CMENE BRIVLA), even at the expense of that {cu},
but that's just me. I suspect that the possibility of
{LA CMENE BRIVLA} existing is part of what makes the
common error {LE BRIVLA BRIVLA} so frequent.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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