Re: [lojban] Tanru automatically forming

[Jameson Orndorff <jtorndorff@gmail.com>]

I'm sorry; I just can't see any substantive upside to making tanru
non-forming by default. Even as much as I see people forming them all
the time by accident (generally because they don't completely
understand how terminators work.) I may be a bit biased, though,
because I generally love using tanru. I use tons of them, because they
often get the job done faster and with the same, easily implied
meaning. For any given bridi, the only common place where you'll have
to consciously mark against tanru creation is before the 'main'
selbri, and that's easily solved with at worst a single terminator, or
{cu} to avoid multiples. I use tanru within {lo ... ku} quite often
and to have to mark that I'm creating tanru would absolutely slow my
speech and add way too much verbosity. Nothing gained, plenty lost.

As a brief aside - and please, no one take this as a a personal attack
- this sort of proposal is the sort of thing that breathes of improper
mastery of terminators. tanru became *far* less confusing and ominous
to me once I learned them properly.

mi'e .kribacr. mu'o

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