smart.fm actually *does* use whole phrases, like "an expresser" or "a sayer" for "lo cusku". What I'm wondering is if it shouldn't instead say "a sayer (place 1 of: x1 says x2 for audience x3 via expressive medium x4)". That is, have both the short form *and* the place structure.
I *really* like this. I think the simple keyword misses a lot of what is good about Lojban, and this approach brings place-structures into the fore as well. "cusku" is not really the same as "say", but something kinda like "say", and this explains what that 'something' is.
The big advantage there is that instead of saying "an audience of something said", we can say "an audience (place 3 of: x1 says x2 for audience x3 via expressive medium x4), which seems far more natural to me. Oddly. :)
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