[lojban] Re: eliding everything

[Oleksii Melnyk <lamelnyk@gmail.com>]

2009/9/30, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>:
> Remove the "{lo du'u}"; "{di'e}" belongs to KOhA and is thus a pro-{sumti},
> not a pro-{bridi}.

I see, thanks. But i think about ideas, not about phrases (which is
di'e "type", AFAIR). So, either my brain is broken by strongly typed
programming languages, or i need to convert "next phrase" into "idea"
type somehow. Would "du'u go'o" (or si'o go'o) do the trick? Or i just
need to stop worrying?

> this seems like nothing more than a variant of "{lo co'e}" that saves only
> one or two syllables;

That's it. "LE KU" is 1.5 to 2 times shorter, then "LE co'e [KU]" and
saves su'o cmavo from remembering. The same can be applied to some
other "elliptical/unspecified" uses (:would some words be shorter:) to
save several more sumti. So, that is just a small bit of consistency
(what is more elliptical, then an empty "()"?) and several cmavo.
Nothing to care about, unless you are fanatic perfectionist :)

-- 
mu'o mi'e lex


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