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[lojban] Re: Possible polysemy clashes for "regular affixes" in lujvo?



And turns out I forgot that {binxo} is also a rather promiscuous gismu! {clani binxo -> clabi'o "to become long"} = {X1 binxo X2 poi clani X3 [X4 ...]}

On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 9:42:45 PM UTC+8, Spheniscine (la zipcpi) wrote:
Certain gismu have, over time, become treated like "prefixes" and "suffixes"; they are used for many lujvo, and they make them in a highly predictable manner.

For example: {zabna binxo -> zanbi'o "to (improve/change in a favorable manner)"} is treated as {zabna fa lo nu X1 binxo X2 X3 [X4 ...]}
While {binxo gasnu -> bixygau "to (change something else / cause something else to change)"} is treated as {X1 gasnu lo nu X2 binxo X3 X4 [X5 ...]}

Unfortunately this causes clashes when two "promiscuous" gismu meet! What exactly would {zangau} mean?

It could mean {zabna fa lo nu X1 gasnu X2} (roughly "does good deeds / does favors"), or it could mean {X1 gasnu lo nu X2 zabna X3 X4} (possibly "to bless")!

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