BPFK Section: Aspect
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:54:15PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> (In fact, that's what people tend to do now it would seem, for example
> with {mu'ei} which is another of the very few that get used.)
mu'ei is also in experimental space.
> I'm probably missing something on the philosophy of the experimental
> space. What is the correct way to use it?
A simple cmavo thus has the property of having only one or two
vowels, or of having a single consonant followed by one or two
vowels. Words consisting of three or more vowels in a row, or a
single consonant followed by three or more vowels, are also of cmavo
form, but are reserved for experimental use: a few examples are
``ku'a'e, ``sau'e, and ``bai'ai''. All CVV cmavo beginning with
the letter ``x'' are also reserved for experimental use. In general,
though, the form of a cmavo tells you little or nothing about its
grammatical use.
``Experimental use'' means that the language designers will not
assign any standard meaning or usage to these words, and words and
usages coined by Lojban speakers will not appear in official
dictionaries for the indefinite future. Experimental-use words
provide an escape hatch for adding grammatical mechanisms (as
opposed to semantic concepts) the need for which was not foreseen.
My reading of that is that to actually officially publish a cmavo, it
must not be in experimental space. This means either re-allocating
experimental space, or changing the cmavo.
> Is CVVV space different from xVV space in this respect?
Not that I'm aware of.
-Robin