Lojban with only cmavo: an Oulipian strategy
> Can you think of any expression that cannot in principle be expressed
> without brivla or cmene? Or do you know any other forms of constrained
> writing (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing for examples)
> that are only possible in Lojban?
Yesterday, during a discussion of why {nu fanva da dunli} was a tanru,
instead of a parsefail, we moved into a discussion of unusual elision of
terminators. I think attempting to craft complicated Lojban without any
terminators (or {cu}) would be an interesting exercise. I came up with
mi lu mi nu finti zo'e troci ba cusku
but I'm sure there are a lot of other interesting things that could be done
in that area.
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