[lojban] Problems with gismu

[lorxus <coronacoreanici@gmail.com>]

coi ro do

It seems like for a language that prides itself on regularity, ease of learning and use, and logic, Lojban sure has weird and incomplete gismu.

A given gismu can have anywhere from 1 to 5 places of varying types, some of them a sign of gismu bloat, and there are even a few extremely obvious gismu with clear counterparts are excluded. My proposals: first, make all gismu be exactly 3 places long, with the first an agent, the second a patient, and the third a beneficiary - loosely. For gismu like {blanu}, we might have "x1 is blue of shade x2 to observer x3", or something like that; {zdani} might be "x1 is a house for x2 owned by x3".

Additionally, we would have a few 1-place gismu to collect all the gismu bloat - things like "x1 is a standard for x2 (ka?) used by x3", "x1 is an epistemology for truths about x2 (du'u) used by x3", or "x1 is a condition/mitigating factor/modifier on event x2 (nu?) affecting x3".

As for blatantly missing gismu: why is there no word for salty, but words for sweet, bitter, sour, and spicy? (bonus points for whoever decided to make a lujvo for spicy meaning pain-flavored) Why don't we have gismu for arrive, old, discard, follow (because I assume that jersi does not have this sense), or appear? Why not for otter, or carrot, or dolphin, or any passerine bird?

If I am overly inexperienced to talk about this, or there are good reasons for not making one of the few irregular and irritating points of a beautiful language reflect the rest of it, please tell me so.

re'isai mi'e lorxus

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