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> > One just has to be wary NOT to use a brivla
> > metaphorically unless you can metaphorize all of the places of the place
> > structure.
>
>Yes, good advice; PROVIDED the gismu doesn't have extraneous places.
>
>A good (very long-term) project would be to give examples for the gismu
>list, covering both allowed and disallowed usages.  In particular, this
>would guarantee that all the places can be filled reasonably concisely,
>something I sometimes get suspicious about.

I would never promise that all gismu places could be filled concisely.
Some are present merely to remind us that their existence should be
noted in determining whether a statement is true or not.  Thus you
should not claim that "ko'a mluni le toknu" unless you are indeed
asserting that there exist relevant orbital parameters.  It isn't
necessary to state them concisely, but it is necessary that there be
some value that could be filled in if someone really cared.

lojbab