Re: [lojban] Re: Named multiples

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Insofar as I follow this -- which, as often,  takes me by surprise that it is still a matter of discussion (but then, there are problems raised in 1960 that are still matters of discussion), I really does seem that all that has happened is the loss of one morphological separate category and maybe -- just maybe -- a change in the frequency of certain already available patterns (covered now by different rules, of course, since the mentioned category no longer exists).  This is a markedly different situation from xorlo, which changed an array of things, mainly semantic (which doesn't enter here at all).
(BTW names are not gismu in precisely the morphological sense (don't end in vowels for starters) and they are root words in the sense of not having an etymology within Lojban -- what that notion means in the case of gismu.)





----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 2:16:06 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Named multiples

> It pleases me when people find their Lindar-filters.
> ((I lol'd @ talking to me like I'm a simpleton. <3 ))

That wasn't meant as a comment about you so much as a comment about the
simplicity of the basic proposal, though.

> We can't come up with a different name? I'm pretty sure that, aside
> from brodV, we're not supposed to have gismu that are the same
> excepting the final vowel.

These are just names.  They're not gismu in the sense of "root words",
they're gismu only in the purely morphological sense.

> I have a very valid question for all involved:
>
> Will we be documenting definitions for cmevla now that they are valid
> brivla, or should it be left up to context?

You're being a little too forward with this ("now that they are valid brivla").
What we should do is just to continue experimenting and discussing.

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