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    • The Case Against LA

    Posted by xorxes on Thu 09 of Nov, 2006 20:12 GMT posts: 1912
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    Posted by Anonymous on Thu 09 of Nov, 2006 20:33 GMT

    Very well argued.

    I only wanted to comment on something not directly related to the
    proposal:

    > (Now, this also leads one to consider the possibility of not requiring
    > la before the name in the first place, since it isn't required to detect
    > the start of the name anymore. Such a proposal would be worth
    > considering, but it does raise some other issues, and it's not what
    > we're talking about now.)

    I would oppose that, because I think CMEVLA should be merged
    with BRIVLA, not with KOhA or such. Doing the merge with BRIVLA
    would bring many benefits, like the possibility of talking about
    {la .atlantik. braxamsi} or {la .kongos. rirxe} which is one of the
    difficulties currently found with names for the Lojban Wikipedia
    articles.

    mu'o mi'e xorxes


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    Posted by clsn on Fri 10 of Nov, 2006 02:33 GMT posts: 84

    Jorge Llambas wrote:

    > Very well argued.
    Thank you.
    > I only wanted to comment on something not directly related to the
    > proposal:
    >
    >> (Now, this also leads one to consider the possibility of not requiring
    >> la before the name in the first place, since it isn't required to detect
    >> the start of the name anymore. Such a proposal would be worth
    >> considering, but it does raise some other issues, and it's not what
    >> we're talking about now.)
    >
    > I would oppose that, because I think CMEVLA should be merged
    > with BRIVLA, not with KOhA or such. Doing the merge with BRIVLA
    > would bring many benefits, like the possibility of talking about
    > {la .atlantik. braxamsi} or {la .kongos. rirxe} which is one of the
    > difficulties currently found with names for the Lojban Wikipedia
    > articles.
    I don't think it's such a good idea either. Maybe if we had started out
    that way all along, or if we didn't have multiword cmene. But it's
    something that comes up.

    I probably don't agree with your CMEVLA/BRIVLA merge either, very
    possibly out of knee-jerk reaction to its seeming radicalness. OTOH, I
    have been thinking of (and need to propose) a much-needed new cmavo in
    LAhE that converts a sumti to a name. It would help in handling all
    kinds of difficulties we're currently having with certain odd name-forms
    (examples aren't occurring to me ATM, but I had a bunch).

    ~mark



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