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

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

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:43:31PM -0600, vitci'i wrote:
> 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*?

LOL.

All those things can be fixed incrementally, was my point.

-Robin

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