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

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

On 12/16/2011 01:25 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0600, vitci'i wrote:
>> 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*.)
> 
> I'm really hoping to avoid that.  But I think there's at least one
> page on the wiki; search for loccan maybe?

Really? You want -tel- to still belong to {stela} instead of {te} in the
year 2200? When we finally clone a velociraptor, do you want to have to
ask {na'e gledji cinse fi ma lo xadni} because we don't have a gismu for
biological sex? When the Sun burns out and you're visiting your
grandkids-xiso'i in Andromeda, do you still want *two different short
rafsi* allocated to *Antarctica*?

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