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== Contest ==
;jutsi: [[jbocre: jut|jut]] "species" - x1 is a species of genus x2, family x3, etc.; [[jbocre: open-ended tree-structure categorization|open-ended tree-structure categorization]]


The designers of a new langague are seeking input. The person who submits the most useful suggestion will receive free a signed limited edition of The Complete Grammar of Simplang, a language mathmatically proven to have the smallest possible grammar.
A [[jbocre: gismu|gismu]] that has an indefinite number of places. (And you thought no gismu on the [[jbocre: gi'uste|gi'uste]] had more than five!) --[[jbocre: pne|pne]]


Input is sought for the design of Inoffensish. This language is to allow people to make statements about the world that won't offend anyone. For example, these two sentences would translate to exactly the same sentence:
You can also add arbitrarily many subunit places to: ''bunda dekpu fepni gutci kramu minli''. I think these six and ''jutsi'' are the only gismu that can have over five places. Anybody know all the [[jbocre: cmavo|cmavo]] that can take indefinitely many places? Start with ''du''. ''mi'e [[jbocre: jezrax|jezrax]]''


In 1492 Columbus discovered
Are there any others, besides ''du''? (Or maybe ''co'e''?) --[[jbocre: pne|pne]]
 
America and brought
 
Christianity to the new
 
world.
 
In 1492 white europeans began
 
a centuries-long program of
 
genocide against native
 
Americans.
 
In Inoffensish both sentences would mean something like:
 
In 1492 Columbus opened the
 
new world to Europeans, which
 
has had profound effects,
 
both good and bad, for
 
aboriginal North Americans.
 
==== The purposes for this langague ====
 
peace studies, diplomacy, press
 
releases by groups dependent on
 
government funds, etc.
 
Send in your suggestion now!
 
(taken from [http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/conlanghumor.txt)
 
Originally] published with side-by-side Esperanto translation. Anyone want to do it in lojban?
 
I seem to recall an implementation of this, called by the same name, from the eminently brilliant and humorous [[jbocre: Jacques Guy|Jacques Guy]] a.k.a. [[jbocre: frogguy|frogguy]].  Here's a link: [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8389/inoff.htm
 
''The] obvious way to implement it is to make Christianity and Genocide be the same word...''
 
That's it, exactly! It's the BS-ish business (so much loved in our flat and hypocritical western society - esp. the U.S.!) to call something white-black or right-wrong or "Let us all be happy and peaceful, clap our hands and sing ..."

Revision as of 16:55, 4 November 2013

jutsi
jut "species" - x1 is a species of genus x2, family x3, etc.; open-ended tree-structure categorization

A gismu that has an indefinite number of places. (And you thought no gismu on the gi'uste had more than five!) --pne

You can also add arbitrarily many subunit places to: bunda dekpu fepni gutci kramu minli. I think these six and jutsi are the only gismu that can have over five places. Anybody know all the cmavo that can take indefinitely many places? Start with du. mi'e jezrax

Are there any others, besides du? (Or maybe co'e?) --pne