[lojban] Re: Named multiples

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> Why is it a horrible idea? What are the meanings of the stage-three
> and stage-four fu'ivla "cidjrspageti" and "spageti"?

It breaks the 'phonological fluidity' of the language by putting
irregular word-forms in places where they aren't normally allowed.
While I think the idea is great in theory, it probably isn't so much
in practice. The apparent advantages don't really outweigh the
disadvantages, methinks. While it would allow names in tanru (so I can
have a xorxes-ish laugh or a camgusmis-ish smile), allowing them to
mean anything other than "x1 is called..." would just allow laziness.
Why bother learning the fu'ivla, or even coming up with one when we
can just use cmevla strings and give them any definition we want?

> As I said, I would use "spageti", not ".spagetis." for "spaghetti",

Right, but that's you. I see the possibility for a huge trend to come
of this where people -don't- bother with fu'ivla, and possibly don't
even bother with lujvo because it's easier to use selbri cmevla. Even
so, really what you're doing is forcing every .namestring. to be read
with "me la", which makes me wonder why we can't just keep doing that.

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