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la lojbab cusku di'e
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> By and large, I see none of this being done. Rather, I see discussions of
> proposed changes, most in a state of pre-formalization, when it states
> explicitly that changes are a delta from the definition of the language
> that is. Some amount of the discussion might pertain to alternate
> interpretations of past usage, which might be useful in deciding what
> should go into the definition, but nothing is conclusive, and nothing CAN
> BE conclusive until the shepherd writes a definition page.
Could you or someone write an example definition page so that we know
where and how this should be done? I'm not too sure how things on the twiki
are organized. I wrote definitions for the cmavo I'm shepherding, but I
don't quite know where to put them. I'm thinking of something like this:
ze'u (tag): It relates an event to its long duration.
As selbri tcita (ze'u <selbri>): the event corresponding to the selbri
has an unspecified long duration.
As sumti tcita (<selbri> ze'u <sumti>): the event corresponding to the
selbri has the long duration specified by the sumti.
As forthought connective (ze'u gi ... gi ...): the first connectand
specifies the long duration of the second.
As afterthought connective (... ize'ubo ...): the second connectand
specifies the long duration of the first.
Example: mi pu ta'e troci ze'u lo djedi be li so'o
"I've been trying for several days".
Would something like that be what you are expecting?
> (Nick would probably prefer that this discussion be held on the byfy meta
> forum, so I'll stop here. Please feel free to answer, but if I feel a need
> to go on, I'll try switching it to there.)
OK.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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