[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

["H. Felton" <fagricipni@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:45 PM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> My name "stevo" deliberately has the form of a gismu, but when I use it in
> Lojban, I always use "stevon".  I never try to use "stevo" as a gismu.  What
> would be its meaning?  "x1 is the person called "stevo" "?
>
> mu'o mi'e stevon

As I remember the argument was that the person named "bunre" did not
actually have to be brown, perhaps they are named "Emmett Brown".
Since cmeme do not actually imply meaning, though they can suggest
meaning.  (Even in English, most of the people who have a last of
"Smith" could trace it back to an actual ancestor who was an actual
smith.)  Since, cmeme are not related to meaning, the expression
"la marca" can be unambiguously de-composed in to "la" followed by
a brivla, even if that brivla is meaningless, so as long as the
"la" is followed by a morphologically correct tanru, brivla, or
cmevla, the use of meaningless brivla (inculding meaningless gismu)
is not ambiguous, as long if it is morphologically correct; that what
I mean about "taking liberties with the morphology"; it's technically
legal, but pushing the boundaries of what was meant to be done.


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