Subject: RE: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:21:02 +0100

Jorge:
> Or (my favourite) forget that botpi has a fourth place and
> assume it only has three places like normal Lojbanic containers.

Your reasoning is that given enough desuetude, perennially
unused places will through force of usage be excised from 
the gismu place structures. But how is that going to happen?
-- For someone can always come along, find the official place
structure and use it, and are they then going to be told
"Yes, that's the place structure the dictionary gives, but
in fact it's ungrammatical Lojban"?

No. What you should do if you don't like the place structure of
a gismu is create a lujvo or fuhivla that does have the place
structure you want. Then let the gismu die from desuetude.

This is the best solution given that place structures are base
lined (in a criminally stupid way, one might add).

--And.