Interpretive conventions for lerfu formatting cmavo
I am posting the comments from the old PHPWiki below. Sorry for the fucky formatting.
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I don't see the point of having formatting cmavo in the first place, we don't really need such a wide variety of pronouns, but if they are going to be there then the restriction you propose would make sense. Of course, that means we won't be able to say things like ga'e klama le zarci anymore... xorxes
The point of them is for use in mathematics, where plain-text distinctions require lots of
formatting. For example, A might be a scalar, and A a corresponding vector.
- But do we really want to refer to the vector as ce'a bold bu abu? It seems extremely inconvenient, especially if you have to repeat it several times and together with non-bold variables. (BTW, why are we using the English word "bold" for this?) Why even mention "bold", why not just "-vector bu abu"?
- Probably. But I couldn't be bothered to think of a native term for "bold", and hyphen notation is confusing to many, as well. --tsali
- I proposed nacmei for "vector", http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/nacmei. So perhaps something like {nacmei bu abu} is easier to understand than {ce'a bold bu abu}. xorxes
- Probably. But I couldn't be bothered to think of a native term for "bold", and hyphen notation is confusing to many, as well. --tsali