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[lojban] Re: zo malglico



On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:03:44PM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> .i ki'u ma zo malglico .enai zo malgli co'e

(If I had time to reply in Lojban, I would)

For one thing, people often prefer sub-"optimal" forms of lujvo. This is often
just for consistency; for example, the lujvo scoring algorithm says that the
word for "better" should be "xauzma", but everyone says "xagmau" due to the
familiarity of the -mau ending.

(This is also because the lujvo scoring algorithm kinda sucks, especially when
it thinks people like to pronounce diphthong+r.)

Generally, I think that there's nothing wrong with leaving lujvo made from
standard components, where their meaning is supposed to be understood from
their parts, in expanded form, like mal+bangu or brody+gau. The frequently used
ones can then be squished to the optimal form. Of course, that _should_ make
"malglico" into "malgli".

So the other explanation is bloody-minded tradition, the same reason that
people say "sumti tcita" even though it's less precise and sounds worse than
"sumtcita".
-- 
Rob Speer