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[lojban] Re: Proposal for new cmavo: {vau'u}



Sorry, make that {i'au} instead. If it's going to be in sub-selma'o UI7 I want to divorce it from the "super vau" implication, since it need not be used at the end (although I see that as the most common use case).

On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 1:15:34 AM UTC+8, Spheniscine (la zipcpi) wrote:
My main argument for it being monosyllabic is that I want it to completely supercede {vau} for use with afterthought attitudinals, and so that we can tell beginners "If you want to add attitudinals to the end of a sentence and you don't want it to merely apply to the last thing you said, use this", and it'll be correct regardless of how many (if any) bridi the sentence has left open.

But fine... I'll add it to the jbovlaste for now as {vau'u}.

On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 4:04:48 PM UTC+8, Spheniscine (la zipcpi) wrote:
I think it might be useful to have a new cmavo, {vau'u}, which is in its own selma'o. It would act as a "super famyma'o / super vau"; acting as any number of {vau}s needed to close off a sentence.

Why? Attitudinals, mostly; it'd allow adding attitudinals as an afterthought, attaching it to the entire sentence rather than the last thing in it. {vau} is sufficient for simple sentences (e.g. {do sidju mi vau ui}), but more complex sentences with subclauses at the end may require several {vau}, which just feels wrong. For example

Instead of: {do sidju mi lo nu mi zenba lo ni ricfu vau vau vau ui} 
You can have: {do sidju mi lo nu mi zenba lo ni ricfu vau'u ui}

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