RE: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la and cusku di'e

> Your reasoning is that given enough desuetude, perennially
> unused places will through force of usage be excised from
> the gismu place structures. But how is that going to happen?
> -- For someone can always come along, find the official place
> structure and use it, and are they then going to be told
> "Yes, that's the place structure the dictionary gives, but
> in fact it's ungrammatical Lojban"?

It is never ungrammatical to use nonexistent places. They
will just receive a confused stare and then the realization
that "oh right, you must be using the word in its obsolete
sense".

> No. What you should do if you don't like the place structure of
> a gismu is create a lujvo or fuhivla that does have the place
> structure you want. Then let the gismu die from desuetude.

If lujvo or fuhivla were as convenient to use as gismu that
would be a good solution, but they're usually several orders
of magnitude more cumbersome, so I think the ignore weird places
strategy has a better payoff.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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