[lojban] Re: eliding everything

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 30 pi'e 09 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Oleksii Melnyk .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> lo cinri cu ka'e preti roda lo verba
> .i lu ma smuni lo'u nu kei le'u li'u cu puzi preti la lojban lo tixnu be mi
> .i bai le nu go'i kei mi co'a pensi lo du'u di'e
.skamyxatra

Remove the "{lo du'u}"; "{di'e}" belongs to KOhA and is thus a pro-{sumti}, not
a pro-{bridi}.

> .ije mi na morji le du'u ri drani fo le gerna be la lojban

I think this might be an appropriate place to use "{jei}" instead of "{du'u}."
You are failing to remember *whether or not* "lo ku" is grammatically correct,
not *the fact that* it is grammatically correct (which it isn't).  However,
since the definition for "{morji}" states that its x2 is/should be a "{du'u}"
abstraction, it might be more correct to use "{lo du'u xu kau}" instead.

> Looks like "loku" can easily be parsed, understood in the only way,
> gives us a lot of "zo'e"s of different types in a short form, and
> follows a consistent pattern of eliding everything elidable.
> 
> Have i missed something?

Aside from the fact that "lo ku" and the like are completely invalid Lojban,
this seems like nothing more than a variant of "{lo co'e}" that saves only one
or two syllables; I don't really see enough benefit to it that would warrant
the (potentially problematic) changes to the grammar, confusion of newcomers,
and/or increased probability of grammatically correct typos.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

-- 
ko senpi lo du'u do bilga lonu senpi


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