Re: TECH: experimental cmavo "xo'e"

[Iain Alexander <I.Alexander.bra0125@OASIS.ICL.CO.UK>]

> Thus Bob Chassell:

> > As for the experimental cmavo "xo'e" that started this discussion.
> > What power!  To eradicate a place means to change a meaning accepted
> > by a community.  Often, new ideas come from thinking something
> > differently.  Use of "xo'e" will, I expect, be shocking to listeners.
> > Its use is a declaration by the speaker that the community's normal
> > understanding is wrong, if not in general, then in the context in
> > which the speaker uses "xo'e".

spuda fa la kolin.
> .ienai

> No more so than forming lujvo or, as I think somebody has already
> suggested, adding a place with BAI. Even forming tanru has this
> sort of creation.

In fact, I think we will have to treat this just like a lujvo,
in that it will in principle be necessary to _define_ what it means.

> Thus

>         zbasu fixo'e
> means
>         x1 is made/built/assembled of/from x2, but I am denying the
> existence, or at least the relevance, of any maker.

Well, actually, my copy of the gimste has

zbasu     zba      make
x1 makes/assembles/builds/manufactures/creates x2 out of materials x3

in which case this particular one's denying the existence of any
material out of which it is made, which is a bit easier to comprehend.

> I am not entirely sure what this means.

But if it was

    se zbasu fe xo'e

I too would have no idea what it means, and would expect whoever
used this to be prepared to explain what he meant.

mi'e .i,n.