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la and cusku di'e
So here is what xorxes and I agree on: set: lu'iro lu'ile lu'ila (=lo'i/le'i/la'i) quantified: PA(ro) PAle PAla substance: lu'oiro lu'oile lu'oila collective: lu'oro lu'ole lu'ola (=(piro)loi/lei/lai) 'unique': lu'airo lu'aile lu'aila
[Minor correction: PA(ro) should have been PA(lo), or just PA.]
I propose, as the solution that would allow the greatest economy in usage conditioned only by considerations of meaning, that bare lo/le/la should be interpreted as if preceded by lu'oiro. That would then give the following table of shortest forms: set: lo'i le'i la'i quantified: PA PAle PAla substance: lo le la collective: loi lei lai 'unique': lu'airo (~lo'e) lu'airole (~ le'e) lu'aila
I like this very much!
The default inner PA for bare lo/le/la would be tu'o. An overt PA would change the interpretation from substance: quantified: loPA = su'oloPA lePA = rolePA substance: lo(tu'o) le(tu'o) An indeterminable amount of prior usage would be invalidated, but that is a small price to pay, because lo/le/la would at last be assigned to a role where they would properly have highest frequency.
Very little with {le} would be invalidated because le almost
always is {le pa}. In fact, it may very well be that this validates
more currently wrong usage than it invalidates any currently correct
usage.
No new gadri would be required. And just 2 new LAhE would be required.
And they would hardly ever be used anyway, since {lu'aila} would
very rarely be preferrable to {la}, and the others all have
already existing short forms.
Excellent proposals, no doubt about it!
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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