Re: [lojban] The Wizard of Oz

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

On 26 Nov 2017 16:36, <vpbroman@gmail.com> wrote:

One substantive global kind of change was made.
Among all the uses of "la", there were many cases where it is followed by a verb phrase, and where the _expression_ is not at all a name, but a description, for example "la tolvirnu cinfo".
All such non-names got "la" replaced with "le".

That looks a deleterious change, unless post-xorlo "le" has been completely redefined from what it formerly was. The original "la" captures properly the English, whereas semitraditional "le" does not at all. (By "semitraditional" I mean to exclude the habitual solecistic misuse that prevailed in early Lojban writing, where "le" was used as the default gadri, with sillinesses such as "le nu".)

--And.

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