[lojban] Let's move {soi} to JOI. And why can't places be interconnected in lojban predicates?

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

At first some examples.

1.{mi ce do simxu lo nu viska} - presumably it's "We see each other" although we don't know what places of {viska} must be filled with {mi,do}.

2."The clown and the grocer despise one another."

So in the chat it has been suggested that we could move {soi} to JOI with the following result:

3.{mi soi do ze'e prami}, quite a laconic way to say "We loved each other since the beginning of time".

Even more examples:

4."France and Britain had been at war [with each other] for 100 years".

So don't you think that those multiple meaningful examples that are supposed to be frequently realised in our speech are enough to settle the issue with {soi}?

More reading: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/lessappendix.html

One more global note.

Predicate arguments seems never to be interacting with each other in gismu. This proposal is one of such attempts to overcome the issue.

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