In Lojban a gismu can have one, two, three, four, or five sumti, or arguments; like the variables of a mathematical function. I have long thought to separate out "conjugations" or 'the five classifying colors' LE MU TE KLESI SKARI as follows: 1 sumti = NARJU XARJU (Orange Pig); 2 sumti = GRUSI GUNSE (Gray Goose); 3 sumti = CRINO CINFO (Green Lion); 4 sumti = BLABI SMANI (White Monkey); and 5 sumti = NUKNI JUKNI (Magenta Spider).
Gismu for each of these could be printed in the appropriate color. (I would do my Quran translation that way--perhaps on buff paper.) --As an additional flourish, i can imagine poets working to organize their colors in patterns, somewhat in the manner of Chinese versification...
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