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Re: [lojban] the future of Lojban's leadership



On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
On 9/9/2014 4:50 PM, And Rosta wrote:

In old usage, "le" was standardly not used in a baseline-compliant way;
cf how "le nu", "le ka", "le du'u" used to be default in usage.

 That is still my default.  I don't know why it is not baseline-compliant (indeed, Xorxes has told me that the old usage is not incorrect under xorlo)

I hope I didn't say that. What I probably did say is that most of the stuff that was correct pre-xorlo is still correct with xorlo, and much of the stuff that was incorrect becomes correct. But if something was wrong pre-xorlo, it might still be wrong.

I believe And may be thinking of something like "mi nelci le nu limna" for "I like swimming". The problem with "le" here is that when you say "I like swimming" you don't have a particular event of swimming in mind, so why would you use "le"? "le nu limna" is supposed to be a particular event of swimming that the speaker has in mind.

(Nowadays many people would probably rather say "mi nelci lo ka limna", but the change from "nu" to "ka" is not from xorlo.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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