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Nick: > >On the officializing of additional gadri, I am now thinking > >that it might be too much to ask of the BF. By my reckoning > >there are 25 gadri, of which 11 are official. The 25 > >comprise pa'ei plus a 6 * 4 grid with lo'i, lau'i, le'i, la'i > >on one axis and on the other: > >set > >quantified (le, lo, la, lau'a) > >massified > >collectivized > >average > >unique > > >Since I don't hold out much hope for the BF officializing > >14 new gadri, I don't see why I should care whether just > >one or two more gadri are officialized > > And, you have a blind spot. Allow me to lift it > > la'e le broda > la'e lo broda > la'e la broda > lu'o lo'i broda > lu'o le'i broda > lu'o la'i broda > > I don't need to go on, do I? If you've got these distinct features > lying around, make a cmavo just for that feature. I'm well aware that those 24 gadri could be reduced to just 4, lo-, le-, la-, lau'-, and then combined with 5 or 6 LAhE (though some novel LAhE would be required). But the current Lojban gadri don't follow that principle. Each gadri is classified by two parameters, not just the one. Furthermore, I don't think the official gadri are more useful than the unofficial ones, so it would seem arbitrary to use LAhE LE to fill in the gaps in the official paradigm. I did wonder, though, whether to consider doing all gadri by LAhE LE. It'd make for more verbosity, but without bias to officialness. BTW, I don't know if you meant anything by "*la'e* le broda". That doesn't seem to have a meaning relevant to our discussion. > And LAhE will give you singularisation for free I'm not sure what you mean by this. --And.