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[lojban] Re: la'e di'u (was: experimental cmavo in lojgloss.)



On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 06:11, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a similar gripe about "di'u" and "la'e di'u". Why is the most
>> common and useful "la'e di'u" a compound, and the less useful "di'u" a
>> single word? Normally we are much more likely to want to talk about
>> la'e di'u than about di'u.
>
> You have to admit, it's a lot cleaner conceptually. What would be the
> alternative? Keep di'u, and la'e, and add another cmavo (or several)
> for la'e di'u simply because of the frequency of usage? Given that the
> ambiguity of la'e could stand to be fixed, would we rather add
> variations on la'e, or single-cmavo variations on la'e di'u?

We could simply have {di'u} mean what {la'e di'u} means now and
use {lu'e di'u}  to mean what {di'u} means now.

-- 
Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se