Re: [lojban] Named multiples

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 31 May 2010 00:58:26 Oleksii Melnyk wrote:
> But what is the profit? We are exchanging the shorter "la lindar darlu"
> (now needs an additional terminator/cu) for the shorter "named X type-of Y"
> type of selbri. Which case are you considering the most
> common/frequent/usable? Which one deserves to be "shorter"?

I do not think the change is worth it. Lojban has two open parts of speech 
(cmevla, brivla) to English's four (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). (Yes I 
know there are languages with two kinds of adjective, or no distinction 
between verb or adjective, etc. All my native languages have those four.) It 
is possible to use "la" with a brivla, or "me" with a cmene, or make a brivla 
corresponding to a cmevla (e.g. sfa'ani/isfa'an). But generally the two parts 
of speech serve distinct functions and should be kept separate.

Pierre
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