Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:41 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On a non-trivial note, I see xorxes proposing to do away with all 'le' in laAlis.  'le' was one of JCB's really clever inventions, a thing of wide genuine use.  Even in its present rather attenuated form, it is still valuable. To replace it by 'lo', whatever that may be nowadays, would degade the language severely (the o0pposite replacement might be an improvement however -- at least we would know what we had).

It's hard to see how, if "le" and "lo" are merged as one, pronouncing
the resulting form "le" could be an improvement while pronouncing it
"lo" would be a degradation.

The reason I prefer "lo nu" to the previously ubiquitous "le nu" is
that in many/most cases of "le nu" there was no intent to refer to a
specific event that the speaker had in mind, "lenu" was just the
automatic option for subordinate bridi, without any consideration of
specificity.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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