Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'u

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la and cusku di'e

> But then to talk about (platonic) Going, you'd have to have
> ce'u ce'u ce'u ce;u ce'u klama, which is very longwinded.

And rightly so, for it is not something we talk about often,
or ever at all.

> OTOH, by my excellent scheme:
>
> ka prami  = Love
> ka zo'e prami (ce'u) = du'u (zo'e) prami ce'u = belovedness
> ka (ce'u) prami zo'e = du'u ce'u prami (zo'e) = loverhood
>
> So you can have things exactly as you want them, so long
> as you use du'u rather than ka.

That's not how I want them, because it reserves the shortest
form for the least useful meaning.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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