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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: [jbovlaste] Random thought on how to make fu'ivla
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It seems to me that we should make fu'ivla, at least sometimes, the
way English does: by contracting annoyingly long compound words.

Example: "cellphone", which is its own word short for "cellular
telephone" (at least), which are themselves compounds if I'm not
mistaken.  It seems to me that we could do something similar, by
creating the crazy-long jvajvo word and then, if it's popular,
ripping parts out in such a way as to create a *fu'ivla* rather than
a less-jva-jvo

Just a thought.

-Robin

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