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Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla
la .betsemes. cu cusku di'e
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:48 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
(Note that la gleki == la .arxokuna, he should probably make his name change
more obvious)
I know. The examples I used were not intended to be the real people
that populate this list, but fictional characters bearing those names.
I might have used any brivla combination for that example and that
would not make any practical difference.
I know that it was just an example. :)
You'd have to call them something like {la broda me la .betsemes. selpa'i}.
It's very ugly, but because there is a way to make it work, it's not broken,
just inconvenient. Or so goes the argument.
The argument is fatally flawed because that's not the real world
usage. That's a completely different usage from what is in use.
In use in Latin America or in Lojbanistan? I assume the former, but
sometimes people say "usage" to refer to "Lojban usage that differs from
CLL-Lojban".
As the
lojban naming system is currently defined, the naming system used on
latin american countries is impossible.
Sure, but then there is the counter-argument that Lojban does not need
to be able to mirror every culture and every language.
Of course "not broken" isn't the same as "cannot be improved". The Merge
would mean a great simplification (in a good way) of the language.
I actually wouldn't call it a "merge" since cmevla and brivla are word
types/classes so defined by just their form. They will continue being
so after the "merge".
Yes, it's only a matter of making them syntactically equal. They remain
morphologically distinct classes.
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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