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[lojban] Re: minimal lojban
--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:27:39AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > 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.
{bo} by itself won't cover all cases. For example, there is no
way to do {broda ke brode brodi brodo} with {bo} only.
Probably the choice is between ke/ke'e and bo/co.
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.
If that's the goal, I would need to add GA, GI, ZOhU and several
other things to my list.
Also, some constructions, such as those that mix logical connectives
with tag connectives, seem to be irreducible to anything simpler.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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