[lojban] Re: other-centric UI

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

For the sake of contiguity, I think that my proposed meanings should
occupy the UI1 space. The reason for this is that the evidential
meanings should go in UI2 with the evidentials, and the non-irrealis
UI should go in with the other non-irrealis UI in UI1. However, if you
want to create a discontinuity in the grammar just for conservatism
for its own sake, and people agree with this point, then I will take
the experimental space and start using it.

However, that is, in my opinion, breaking the stylistic contiguity and
regularity in the language. Every UI1 should be an expression of
emotion, every UI2 should be an expression of evidence. Now you're
saying that you want the entire A E and half of I series to act like
evidentials and then the other half to act like what they really are?
It seems like you're creating a giant exception to the rule, which is,
in my opinion, extremely unlojbanic. I'm not trying to push -your-
definitions to the experimental space because I'm trying to treat you
as less than I or as a second-class citizen. It has nothing to do with
you or your proponents personally; I'm not trying to attack you as you
seem to think. I want to move the evidential definitions to new words
and place them in UI2 because they *act like evidentials*, so they
should be put with the evidentials. The pure emotion definitions I
want should be the original A-I for the sake of CONSISTENCY, because
that's what the language is supposed to be about. It should have
consistent rules and patterns which make things easy to remember and
consistent within itself. So put yourself in the shoes of a newbie.
Now they have to remember that half of UI2 actually functions like UI1
and half of UI1 actually acts like UI2, but which ones and why? Why
not make it consistent and regular like the language should be?

I'd like to hear more about this from the people on the mailing list,
but in the mean time, I am going to write up a formal proposal and
petition the BPFK.

By the way, I like da'oi a lot. So it's {.uuda'oi .selkik.} for if I
feel pity toward selkik?
I'm using that!

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