Thanks for the info, selpa'i & Jacob. It's great to see people so engaged with the usability and logical basis of the language. New soi seems a very good idea.
Is there a body of opinion that thinks that designwise ce'u should be retained, or is it rather the case that the prevailing opinion is that any reforms should focus on the important changes rather on those (such as scrapping ce'u) that could justly be called tinkering?
--And.
la .and. cu cusku di'e
Assigning /voi/ to {poi'i} -- excellent stuff! I'm delighted to hear
it's being used already. Rereading today some discussion from 12+ years
ago, I see {se ka} was also proposed, subject to instigation of a
convention for coercing added sumti places by addition of SE or FA.
Is there a list of cmavo recycling proposals?
Off the top of my head, here are most of the re-assignments that have been considered (and I mean considered, not settled by any means):
ce'u -> ce
ke'a -> ki
tu'a -> tau
jo'u -> jau
du'u -> du
su'o -> sa / su
poi'i -> voi
And there is this proposal to replace good ol' never-used {soi}:
http://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=new_soi
This proposal is quite popular actually (among those who know about it).
(I also have a secret proposal to assign the currently un-assigned cmavo {ja'u} to {na ka'e na} (also known as {bi'ai}).
I saw somewhere a proposal
to recycle /du/, which I was initially a little consternated by, since
{le du} had seemed very useful to me (as meaning unbound "he, she, it,
they"), but I guess that could be got by {lo co'e}, with {co'e} meriting
a monosyllabic form.
What I would like even more is a better system of anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi in general.
mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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