[lojban] Re: CMENE=BRIVLA (was Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan.")

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

--- Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:36:05PM -0700, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >    ro djan poi mi djuno cu xabju le merko
> >    Every John I know lives in the US.
> 
> [I think you meant sanji; djuno can't be used like that]

I should have used {slabu}. 

> Realistically, you'd likely say something more like
> 
> 	ro me la djan. ku poi mi sanji cu xabju le merko

Or you can even say {ro la djan}. A better example would have been:

       ro da poi djan gi'e slabu mi cu xabju le merko

> The extra 3 syllables in that sentence are certainly going to be
> more than paid for by all the elided {cu} in the rest of whatever
> text/conversation is going on.

But I'm not saying putting CMENE in BRIVLA will save you syllables.
It will just make the grammar simpler.

Another place where it would require an extra ku is in
{la alis joi mi}. Robin, will your parser be capable of 
dealing with {le broda joi mi}?

> > > Let's leave "ease of learning" goal for the billion wanna-be
> > > interlangs out there, no?
> > 
> > It's not the main virtue of Lojban, I agree, but why make it
> > difficult for no good reason?
> 
> I don't think it's difficult.

I meant "more difficult". It's an additional rule to learn.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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