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

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

This isn't about importance; that's what got us into this mess.
It's about ease of memorization.  :)

-Robin

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:54:48PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> Hmmm, what about words like {vecnu} where the audience seems less
> important than the direct object?  Or is that my lingual bias
> coming through?
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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.
> >
> > -Robin
> >
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is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false"
is "na nei".   My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/

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