[lojban] Mini-rant: cap your lujvo at 3 places.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

(Please note: I am *extremely* guilty of this)

I've started truly memorizing the place structures, in detail, of
every gismu, and also of a bunch of lujvo (basically, every time I
find and use a lujvo, I add it to my list to memorize) and I've
discovered something: with the exception of extremely regular shit
like klama, 4 places is too fucking many.

Just because you're doing jvajvo doesn't mean you have to use
*every* place available.  3 is plenty; if the person needs the other
places they can whip out one of the original brivla.  When I can't
remember the place structure to *my own word* (rapcreze'a), shit be
broken.

My current favorite example is {nelrai}, although that's really
traji's fault; the x4 *really* isn't useful.

-Robin

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