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[Wikineurotic] Wiki page gismu != primitives changed by zort
The page gismu != primitives was changed by zort at 17:55 EST
Comment: Removed natter and fixed link.
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- This represents one of the classic Lojban fallacies, and even ((JCB)) believed it for a time.
+ This represents one of the classic Lojban fallacies, and even ((James Cooke Brown|JCB)) believed it for a time.
- There is nothing inherently "primitive" about most of the gismu, nor are they intended to be so. As an obvious example, ''nanmu'' means "male adult human", and could have been represented as "nakni je makcu je remna". But it isn't, because it is a sufficiently high-frequency concept that assigning a ((gismu)) for it made sense even in the ((Elder Days)).<br /><br />''Actually, there's no implication of "adult" in nanmu. ((Misleading gismu keywords|Keywords Considered Harmful)).''
+ There is nothing inherently "primitive" about most of the gismu, nor are they intended to be so. As an obvious example, ''nanmu'' means "male human", and could have been represented as "nakni je remna". But it isn't, because it is a sufficiently high-frequency concept that assigning a ((gismu)) for it made sense even in the ((Elder Days)).
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This represents one of the classic Lojban fallacies, and even ((James Cooke Brown|JCB)) believed it for a time.
There is nothing inherently "primitive" about most of the gismu, nor are they intended to be so. As an obvious example, ''nanmu'' means "male human", and could have been represented as "nakni je remna". But it isn't, because it is a sufficiently high-frequency concept that assigning a ((gismu)) for it made sense even in the ((Elder Days)).
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