History: ci'irprosa

Source of version: 3 (current)

~pre~ ''ci'irprosa levi pemci cukta vau'' --Preface to this poembook-- ''fu'e.a'a ca'e lu lo velsku mo leri selsku li'u'' How does the means-of-expression relate to its things-expressed? ''.i ru'a la lojban. teryro'i co danfu fo di'u'' I assume Lojban is a means of trying to answer that question. ''.i rixire cizra mu'i .iki'uku ri mi cinri po'ita'i lenu lo'' Thus it is strange; & it therefore interests me, as a blackbird ''xekcpi cuse trina loi minra ni'o sera'a le me la sapir .uorf.'' is drawn to shiny things. As for the "Sapir-Whorf" hypothesis, ''kuku pe'i ri ge narvai kaurjetnu gi dutcumki selcipra .iku'i'' it seems to me both a truism & impossible to prove. It might be ''pe'icu'i rolo pemci fasnu cu danfu po'a fo lu ba'e lemi velsku mo'' said, however, that each poem-event is like an answer to the ''levi ba'e bazi selsku li'u .ije ni'iku lezu'o pemci zbasu kei'' question, "How does MY means-of-expression relate to this NEXT ''mo'u bau la lojban. ka'e tadji lenu cipra satcyzga kei be leri'' thing-expressed?" Then poetry in Lojban would be a way of ''selsku ka cumki .ifu'o ku'i mi nabona'e milxe selsrana le sabji'' experimentally examining its expressive range... But i am not ''be loinu skekrinu kei be le cuntu poi rincau caircni ku be'unai'' overly concerned with providing scientific reasons for so fascin- ''.i .a'oo'acu'i lemi ka gersne kei bana cfipyspo le canko bismo'a'' ating an activity in itself. I only hope the imperfections of my ''po'a pe lemi mukti mu'o'' usage do not obliterate the "window ice-pattern" of my intent. ~/pre~ 4/19/91-5/13/91