Re: [lojban] xoi and new soi as bridi relative clause

[guskant <gusni.kantu@gmail.com>]

Le mardi 21 juillet 2015 14:28:18 UTC, la gleki a écrit :

2015-07-21 17:18 GMT+03:00 guskant <gusni...@gmail.com>:

It's not simplicity of grammar but similarity of form of description sumti and inserted bridi. If {sei}-clause could enclose a sentence, the grammar would be 23 bytes smaller. If we add {soi}-clause to "free", the structure and the usage will be very similar to {sei}-clause. If we had the structure of "SOI sentence SEhU" from the beginning of Lojban, I would have never used "SEI terms selbri SEhU". 

Similarly, you can eliminate LE and move it to LOhOI saving even more rules.

Thank you for the advice. It seems apparently a nice idea, but I see more importance in LE-clause than SEI-clause, so I would rather keep it: A LE-clause automatically picks up the first argument from predication, while LOhOI can change the argument to pick up by {ke'a} afterwords. They have more different aspect compared with the similarity between SEI and new SOI.

By the way, I have no intention to force any change to ilmentufa or camxes, so don't be so much worry. You can continue being illogical and inconsistent as you like. 

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