[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 25 pi'e 09 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Arran .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> (Warning, offtopic, idiosyntratic, potentially not ver well thought out
> part) I have seriously wondered if there should be junk gismu/rafsi which
> only have meaning in combination with other words, ie for xruba, (not a good
> example, but I have some of this growing in my garden) you (can) have xunre
> stani xruba, but wouldn't it be interesting to have hrexub where hre is a
> some fictional rasfi which is almost predicate in meaning.
.skamyxatra

If you mean {gismu} & {rafsi} which could theoretically be used alone but are
virtually only ever used in {tanru} or {lujvo}, there are already some like
that; there are the numeric/metric prefixes like "{megdo}" & "{zetro}," color
{gismu} as used by speakers beyond beginner level, "{simxu}," and probably a
bunch of others that I can't think of right now.  If, however, you mean
{gismu}/{rafsi} whose meanings are "context sensitive" and determined entirely
by (and change in accordance with) the enclosing {tanru}/{lujvo} and cannot be
used alone, that's just crazy talk.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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