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Fewer insults #430

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Remove the -mz- rule, which ka'u was meant to insult the late James Cooke Brown. Additionally, change the infamous "manwoman" paragraph. The rest of Chapter 14 is largely unchanged; whether to change "James is a woman" can be independent of this change.

ti'e ka'u This is only forbidden as an insult to James Cooke Brown.
However, this insult no longer makes sense to sustain, as it can no
longer be delivered as intended. Instead, it now harms anybody who might
desire the -mz- cluster for whatever use, including for Lojbanization of
existing names.

Frankly, I can't believe I have to argue in favor of this. It's obvious.
This example works much better with selbri whose underlying relations
are clearly definitionally disjoint. I am not married to this example
pair, and am okay with any other example pair which is more disjoint.
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MostAwesomeDude commented Jan 22, 2024

In this 2022 review of Lojban's morphology, la selgu'a points out:

The prohibition of /mz/ is an anomaly.

[Of the five specifically-forbidden pairs,] /mz/ is especially puzzling, given that it occurs across several of the source languages, from English whimsy to Arabic hamza.

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