Sounds like an Espranto-ish mechanism. Personally, I quite like Lojban's tense cmavo, and tenseless default. I'd rather not get into conjugating gismu based on tense. Besides, you'd have to come up with another rule to handle collisions (eg: if -u makes a gismu past tense, then what's the present tense of {zo gismu}? Would you call that {gismu'u}? And what would that do to rafsi, lujvo, and sumtcita derived from said confusing words ({smacu'u} ~ "is a mouse?") For all this trouble, I see nothing to gain.
No, I prefer the cmavo. They're more flexible and explicit, you don't need to worry about double vowels. But perhaps most importantly, we would have to invalidate all the of gismu, rafsi, lujvo, and sumtcita determinations and rules made to date, as well as all of the texts written based on said determinations and rules, just to change the way we do tenses.
mi'e .neit. mu'o
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 9:13:26 PM UTC-4, aionys wrote:
The best I can make of this is that it seems he is proposing that we make the ending vowel of gismu reflect the tense it is being used in, so that for example dunda would become dundu in the present tense and dundy in the past tense.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Jones
<eye...@gmail.com> wrote:
His messages rarely make much sense. We've tried to get him to post in his own language, seeing as other people here know it and could translate much better than his own attempts, but he hasn't listened.
I advise you to do as I and just ignore him when you can make neither heads nor tails of him.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Wuzzy
<alm...@aol.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 04:32:15 -0700 (PDT)
la ki'es-di'es <buro...@yahoo.co.uk> said this:
> For example, according to Arabic grammer the past word end of y and
> the present end of u and do "order" verb end of consonant, so that
> true for lojban verb gismu valsi we can manipulate with the last
> letter of verb, for the verifing of the validity of that the idea.
o_O Your message does not make any sense to me. What the fuck are you
talking about?
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