Re: [lojban] Mini-rant: gismu place consistency

[vitci'i <celestialcognition@gmail.com>]

On 12/16/2011 01:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> If I had it to do over again, every gismu with an agent place would
> have it as the first place.  Every gismu with an audience or second
> agent of any type would have it as the second place.  There would
> probably be several other regularities as well.
> 
> I've been saying {manci} and {melbi} to my babies *a lot*, and I
> *still* have trouble remembering that it's {do melbi mi} and {mi
> manci do}.  GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Perhaps there should be a central repository of things we'd like to fix
when the next major version of lojban occurs. (There almost certainly
will be one eventually if the language lasts long enough. Maybe it'll be
in ten years, maybe a hundred, but it *will* need a major update
*eventually*.)

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