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Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] questions about lojban



That is, it is a stylistic convention, not a grammar change.  Nothing wrong with that, of course, but not a change in the language per se, merely in its use.


From: selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] questions about lojban

la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
> {lo ka ta pelxu} is clearly grammatical.  the problem is that (like most
> things that are grammatical) it doesn't make any obvious sense or,
> perhaps, makes too many not very obvious senses.  A property of worlds,
> say, or a particular shade of yellow in this one or ... .  How is it to
> be avoided ? Allowing only {ce'u} after {ka}?  And thus creating a new
> word class --or two?  Seems Draconian, when you can get by by just not
> using it.

{lo ka ta pelxu} is grammatical but makes no sense to said group of speakers because a {ka} abstraction must contain at least one {ce'u}. There is no obvious place to go for {ce'u} here, so it's not well-formed. {ce'u}-less {ka} has fallen out of use and that's not really a new development, seeing that old jboske discussions already had settled on it.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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