[lojban] Re: ki'a

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Bob LeChevalier wrote:

> Perhaps, those who are coining them may like them (until caught by a slinku'i 
> error), but those reading them and not familiar with them are probably more 
> likely to appreciate Type IIIs.

I personally find type IVs MUCH more aesthetically pleasing than type 
IIIs. I usually only use type IIIs if there is a word-shape constraint 
(such as with samcrkasava), or when coining nonce fu'ivla on the fly.

> fu'ivla remain BY POLICY, substandard Lojban, since this encourages the 
> preferred kind of word building using lujvo.  Having fu'ivla be aesthetically 
> unpleasing to some people is supportive of this policy.

If so, this policy is in IMHO very poorly advertised.

The CLL says:

# The intention is that (except in certain semantically broad but shallow 
# fields such as cultures, nations, foods, plants, and animals) suitable 
# lujvo can be devised to cover the ten million or so concepts expressible 
# in all the world's languages taken together.

This is exactly the way that stage-IV lujvo are being used today. I am 
hard pressed to find *any* fu'ivla among the about two hundred currently 
in Jbovlaste that do not fit any of the above categories.

--
Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
"My speech recognition software may have trouble with ordinary words, but
not with ketoprofen." --Magnus Itland


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