Re: Word changing and word creation (was Re: [lojban] bugs in jbovlaste)

[gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

>>Lojban is not -- and never was intended to be -- a philosophical language, in which everything received a appropriate name derived from a few "semantic primes".  If gismu overlap, this is typically because natural languages have found it Convenient to have more than one word in that area.  Lojban has generally followed these natural patterns (with notable exceptions, like 'klama').  Probably more overall simplicity could be achieved by adding gismu even with overlaps (most words in English can be replaced by other words or short phrases in the intricate  cycles of definitions).

It's always nice to see posts from really great people here ))).
Are there any drafts of what Natural Semantic Metalanguage might look like? Will it be convenient to use in everyday life?
In tokipona it's extremely hard to distinguish between e.g. "spoon" and "fork".

ta'onai I didn't mean that one gismu can be converted into another gismu using only a handful of cmavo.
I meant what la tsani and others later presented here.
galfi fi lo jorne / jorne gasnu/jongau instead of lasna etc. 

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