On Thursday, August 7, 2014 1:50:31 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:You are right that one can imagine a dialect with not more than two slots.The advantage is that there are fewer slots to remember.The drawback is that there are more words to remember.You can create such a dialect within Lojban and it won't break Lojban. You are even free to add words for it to jbvovlaste.lojban.org.Whether they become popular is another question (you would probably have to write texts in Lojban so that others read them and absorb your new words).The same applies to three-slot predicates.Thanks! I don't want to create a separate dialect per se, but I would like to try to see all concepts covered within the first three sumti. I think a three slot rule of thumb is a good idea, really just a corollary of the more general KISS principle. I think I will pursue this, albeit just a little bit at a time. For now I will be happy to suggest one word that means `x1-travels-by-mode-x2-via-route-x3`.
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