[lojban] antiblotation (was: RE: taksi

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

filip:
> On 28 May 2003 at 0:43, jjllambias2000 wrote:
> 
> > The place structure for taksi is perhaps the least obvious of the
> > three, but almost certainly I would bet it has the passengers/cargo in
> > x2. 
> 
> Probably also a place for area of operation (most taxis I know operate 
> only in one city, or in a defined rural area) 
> 
> Not so sure about driver or fare 

For any place structure:

Step 1.
Draw up a list of candidate places. There will be infinitely many
to select from, but make sure they include those things that might 
be difficult to express by means of other locutions.

Step 2.
For each candidate place, check whether you really want to define (e.g.)
taksi so that something is not a taksi if there is no passenger, or
no area of operation, or no driver, or no fare. Discard any candidates
that are thus inessential. This avoids making the brivla mean something
other than what was intended.

Step 3.
Get rid of any remaining candidates that could easily be expressed by
other means and that don't follow established patterns among the place 
structures of other brivla. This avoids making the place structure
unnecessarily hard to learn.

--And.