[lojban] Re: The Lojban Wikipedia is up

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

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:46:45PM -0400, xod wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> >I'm a lot less averse to metaphorical lujvo now that I've created a
> >whole bunch of them *complete* *with* *place* *structure*.  Doing so
> >makes it obvious that Lojban words are more defined by place
> >structure than keyword, and that anything that has the place you want
> >is The Right Choice.
> > 
> >
> 
> I hear this often, touted as a profound observation, but what does it
> mean? That we should pay attention to all the keywords instead of just
> one? 

It means that every single place is important, and that a brivla is a
relation between all those things, and that no subset of that can be
treated as the whole definition.

> >I still think ralcku is asinine, though.  mutmi'i I mind a lot less
> >than I used to, although I think it's rarely the best choice for
> >"software" (too broad).
> 
> Lujvo should focus primarily on use-function -- how it appears to the
> user -- as opposed to technical precision.

As long as two lujvo are more-or-less the same number of syllables, I
*utterly* disagree.

-Robin

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