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

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

I didn't know about NSM when I made my post.
I was going along the lines of "basic idea", but I figure that for the
language to actually be productive, there needs to be more than just
63 gismu, which is why I'm all for making new ones, if and only if
it's to get at concepts that are difficult to express with a lujvo and
that are universal enough to not be a zi'evla.

mu'o mi'e la tsani

On 13 May 2012 19:53, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Stevo, simple. Because of what gleki said:
>> >You probably will want to see the list of definitions of the rest of the
>> > gismu as combinations of the selected 340.
>>
>> There're probably more than 340 semantic primitives in Lojban,
>
>
> How do you define a semantic primitive? According to NSM, there are only
> about 63 semantic primitives.
>
> stevo
>
>>
>> but
>> it's highly likely that all the other more complex gismu *can* be
>> reduced into a much smaller set of "core" gismu. Then, in my opinion,
>> gismu should only be added at this point if that new concept is not
>> readily expressible as a combination of preexisting gismu and is a
>> very universal concept. If the concept is not universal, then it
>> should merit a zi'evla, because all skilled lojbanists should be
>> expected to know at least the whole gimste.
>>
>> Note that I've already said all of the second part of that.
>>
>> mu'o mi'e la tsani
>>
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