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I'm Daniel Evans, and I figured that I would share my thoughts on the lojban place structure. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, so I finally sat down today for about four hours and typed up a really rough paper about it. In a nutshell, I say it should be trashed. Thrown away. Why? Read the paper, and then tell me what you think :)
I just read it. The idea of using semantic roles to mark places is not new; not only have I used it in one of my conlangs, the system you propose is almost identical to the one present in Loglan! The only real difference is that Loglan had a few more such "cases" than you are proposing, and it didn't get rid of the FA and SE cmavo.
You seem to be complaining that the place structures are too hard to keep track of. This is a common complaint among beginners, but I can assure you that it gets easy after a while.
Instead of trashing the whole gimste, I think it makes more sense to regularize the place structures. Remove odd-balls from groups of otherwise perfectly parallel place structures, remove some of the obscure places that never get used and only clog up lujvo, and so on. This, I believe, will all get done in due time, so there is no reason to panic.
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