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Re: [lojban] Knowledge (was: Random lojban questions/annoyances
la xod cusku di'e
> So you want {djuno} to be synonimous with {jinvi} or with {birti}?
> Why have the word at all?
birti seems like malglico, subsumable under jinvi.
But some opinions are held with more certainty than others,
{birti} is useful to make that distinction.
But why bother djuno,
since it is only a superposition of krici + tugni?
krici + jetnu really. {ko'a djuno ko'e} => {ko'a krici ko'e}
& {ko'e jetnu}.
But Lojban gismu are not supposed to be a minimal set.
There are many superpositions that occur often or were
considered useful for some reason.
> Every single Lojban word automatically inserts the judgments of
> the narrator. Which word doesn't?
krici doesn't.
It certainly does. If you say that A believes B you are making
a judgment.
It reports on the objective facts. So does tugni. But djuno
sneaks the narrator's biases in there quietly.
I don't see any special bias sneaking in with djuno. Nothing
that doesn't sneak in with jetnu.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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