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| In a message dated 10/18/2002 10:53:13 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@hidden.email writes: << Me being such an anglophone, I have problems with that maxim, >> Is Britspeak really that different from Yankspeak? I use repetition to replace unwieldy or embarrassing anaphoric pronouns all the time (repeating "God" to avoid masculine pronouns being the most active case, but many incidental others as well). Remember, "anaphora" just means "repetition" (source fo the joke) and using dummies to save the effort is just a rhetorical flourish. << You could create an experimental Lojban cmavo for lambda (e.g. ce'au, in PA), if you were convinced there was a need. >> As John points out, that was what {ce'u} was to do originally but it got sidetracked -- thoeuhg whether by verbosity or general incomprehension I am not sure. In any case, a new form is not needed, just would be nice to avoid some of the runarounds that the present version requires. But runarounds are never a reason for adding new vocab. |