Re: [lojban] Re: cusku - say or express?

[Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>]

I think the idea to keep full place structure solves this marvelously.

No keyword can ever be perfect, and apparently some may not even be
sufficiently distinct to some people. The simple and automatable
solution is to add the gismu place definition; it may be lengthy but
when you're studying you can ignore the trailing place structure if
you know it already. This way, we would be erring on the side of
over-precision -- which isn't really erring at all by some
definitions.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:10, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:11:09PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>> I'm sorry. I'm a native English speaker, and much as I usually
>> argue with Xorxes, his point is very well taken.  And
>> Merriam-Webster agrees with him.
>
> Again: this isn't about whether he's correct as to the keyword
> matching the Lojban definition; he's obviously correct, as I've said
> several times.  This is about whether or not you'd rember that "a
> talker" is distinct from "a sayer" consistently when using (hundreds
> of) flashcards.
>
> -Robin
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