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Re: more on fat gismu



> #The only one I don't like from that list is {muvdu}. I'd prefer it without
> #an x1 and use {muvgau} for that concept. (Removing x1 from {muvdu} would
> #achieve what I wanted by removing x5 from {klama}.) I can't believe that you
> #can't talk in Lojban about movement without bringing up a cause.
>
> I'll just break my silence here (got my foot nudged by a car this morning,
> so I'm certainly not going to get any work done) to say that I support this
> change. It's consistent with Lojban (in which we encode intransitives as
> single gismu more often than transitives), and it makes sense to be able to
> talk about uncaused, vehicle-less motion in at least one gismu, when the
> caused version, {muvgau}, is so straightforward to derive.

I third this.

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