[lojban] Re: minimal lojban

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

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:27:39AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > but i know there are bo and (ke, ke'i)... surely lojban isn't
> > complete without these??
> 
> ke and ke'e are very rarely used. 

I'm actually starting to use them quite often, oddly enough.

> bo is more often used in the {i <tag> bo} or the {na'e bo}
> constructions than in tanru. In the end it's a matter of taste
> whether you think ke-ke'e, bo or co is more essential for lojban.
> I wouldn't include bo and ke-ke'e in my minimal lojban, but that's
> just my point of view.

If a minimal Lojban includes tanru, you *must* have one or the
other, or you lose expressive power.  As it seems to me that the
goas here is to produce a Kernel Language for Lojban (that is, the
most minimal set of Lojban from which all the rest of Lojban can be
described as just shortcuts), you don't want to lose expressive
power.

-Robin

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