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Re: [jboske] The two lo'es (was: essentials of a gadri system)



Dr. And Rosta:
> xorxes:
> > As for reassignment, in my case lo'e was assigned to Kind in 1994 
> > so restricting it to CLL-lo'e would constitute the reassignment.
> > But I'm willing to wait and evaluate all options. 
> 
> IIUC, you use {le} for Kinds that cannot be anything but Kinds, because 
> it's shorter without being pragmatically misleading. 

le ka, le du'u, yes.

> I am still hoping 
> for a miracle with Kind being assigned a short monosyllabic form.

I think the best solution would be to assign unquantified {lo} 
to Kind. Otherwise, I prefer {lo'e} to anything in LAhE. I'm
not so sure about a {lau} in LE: it is monosyllabic, but I'd have
to get used to it.

{lo} for Kind would not involve any drastic change in usage,
but it would require some changes to CLL and especially in how
we teach it.
 
> But
> you seem happier than me to embrace creatively the tension between how
> the language should work and how it does work.

I enjoy using it and trying to make do with what we have, yes.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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