Re: TECH: experimental cmavo "xo'e"

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@GREBYN.COM>]

A mind may "make" a thought, but "lo menli" cannot "zbasu" "lo se pensi".
Because, indeed, there is no material it is made from.  Similar, in English,
we express many kinds of causality using the word "make", none of which are
appropriate to zbasu (this is one source of open disagreement between the
Lojban design and JCB's earlier Loglan designs - he tolerates and indeed
still advocates the illogical use of the zbasu equivalent for lujvo expressing
causality - by convention, nonetheless).  In Lojban, you should be using the
appropriate causal gismu or lujvo for causality.  The relationship between
a mind and a thought should be more akin to pensi, than to zbasu (whether
a person thinks a thought or whether his/her mind does, is an interesting
question.  Maybe the mind/thought relationship needs to be a variant of pensi,
perhaps using a sepi'o to add the place, or in lujvo form, either tutci or
pilno, added to pensi.

lojbab