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[lojban] Idea about taxonomic vocabualry



I was thinking about stevo's `CV` categorized gismu (still would like to see that, btw) and recently reading about the notion of taxonomic languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_language) when a neat idea struck me. If the the first three letters of a gismu related all such words --for the sake of argument let's say all fruit words started with `fru`, so then `frupa` might mean apple, `furba` banana, `furca` strawberry, etc. then my idea is that there could be a special cmavo that created a "group context", call it `xi'o... xi'u` and then one could say thins like:

    fruxi'o pa .e ba .e ca [xi'u]

Which would be the same as

    frupa .e fruba .e fruca

Of course this cmavo is a little odd b/c it works more like an inflection. And unfortunately Lojban doesn't have any sort of taxonomic vocabulary whatsoever. So it doesn't really fly. But I thought it was a neat idea anyway, so I thought I'd share.

.trans.

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