[lojban] Re: Tanru automatically forming

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> I'm sorry; I just can't see any substantive upside to making tanru
> non-forming by default.

+1

> Even as much as I see people forming them all
> the time by accident (generally because they don't completely
> understand how terminators work.)

+1

> 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.

+1

> 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.

+1

> 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.

+1

It's one of many nifty ideas that will never ever ever be implemented
in Lojban. Sorry.

mi'e .lindar. mu'o

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