Received: from mail-pb0-f61.google.com ([209.85.160.61]:34034) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SoBRb-00015j-8L; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:44:00 -0700 Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2sf13686162pbb.16 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=cb6UoUH/aIsf8HNYtAL/Sz3qKbQ1zCFIjlZSN7CeS8g=; b=FOra7QrNCmfgo+9ePWtvj2XDybHV0QmT1OVb3dg2O4sdA0c9zmFmEjSfY4yI3/g1dF VeT6iWicUg5E+0MKd5zICKLMyajZD9t1sf5QkWorsqGF47dJ3GaHg4UIPTqI8PrMEAr/ ktJMi8NJnvQr3SqHJbllLOTLHM51TFvGo8S5Y= Received: by 10.52.26.18 with SMTP id h18mr2227059vdg.0.1341830628645; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:48 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.157.82 with SMTP id a18ls43907vcx.3.gmail; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.178.166 with SMTP id cz6mr30858885vdc.1.1341830627154; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.178.166 with SMTP id cz6mr30858884vdc.1.1341830627144; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12si402001vdf.3.2012.07.09.03.43.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of paul.predkiewicz@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.182 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.220.182; Received: by mail-vc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id fy7so11748717vcb.27 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.93.194 with SMTP id cw2mr14756729vdb.9.1341830626742; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:43:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.21.143 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 03:43:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1897ed28-8a5d-4a2c-8916-8bad921c8240@googlegroups.com> <3fe35f00-2292-47f2-8174-e085ac192707@googlegroups.com> <12445105.L7OIGU9naY@mehitabel> <636d3cc9-86ce-43f7-b181-146391653181@googlegroups.com> <33c7e7dd-2010-4672-9961-1616d06b1677@googlegroups.com> From: Paul Predkiewicz Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:43:16 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: zo'oi pomegranate se fanva fu ma To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: paul.predkiewicz@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of paul.predkiewicz@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.182 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=paul.predkiewicz@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / I think {tsiplise} is awesome. Allthough it's pulp really is more like from a berry, but since on the outside it looks like an apple, one might consider {tsijbaplise} Or, you could even put the phoenecians into the game, "who were active in broadening its cultivation, partly for religious reasons." as wikipedia puts it. just my 2 one-hundredth subdivisions of several units of currency... On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Jones wrote: > That's not a Lojban specific thing. Every language has that. > > For example, you can call a person attractive, pretty, beautiful, handsome, > sexy, cute, hot,... > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:33 AM, gleki wrote: >> >> It just reminds me of tatoeba where many lojbanic sentences have 2-3 >> versions like jbobau/banjubu'o/la .lojban. >> Flexibility and synonymy is great but sometimes we need to choose one way >> not to be misunderstood by others. >> >> >> On Monday, July 9, 2012 10:05:56 AM UTC+4, aionys wrote: >>> >>> Should? I can't answer that. Do it if you want to. >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, gleki >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:10:36 PM UTC+4, aionys wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Personally, being one of those people who hates fu'ivla of any kind, I >>>>> like {tsiplise}, myself. >>>> >>>> >>>> (facepalm) >>>> I like this word too. Should I create a third version of this pixra? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Pierre Abbat >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, July 08, 2012 01:10:26 AM gleki wrote: >>>>>> > Type 3 fu'ivla is not unnaturalistic at all. Ancient Egyptian >>>>>> > (ju'ocu'i the >>>>>> > eldest written language that we are aware of) >>>>>> > actually had such type of words. >>>>>> > e.g. >>>>>> > [image: nfr][image: nfr][image: nfr][image: pr] pronounced as *nfrw >>>>>> > *means >>>>>> > "foundations of a house" where [image: pr] means house in order to >>>>>> > distinguish it from other homophones pronounced as *nfrw* as well. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > It's like {grutrgranate} and {tricrgranate} in Lojban. >>>>>> >>>>>> The Egyptian writing system has nothing to do with rafsi classifiers >>>>>> on >>>>>> borrowed words. A better natlang example of a type-3 fu'ivla is >>>>>> "weeverfish" >>>>>> (or "weaverfish"), where "weever" is from Old French and "fish" is >>>>>> native. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, July 08, 2012 01:11:35 AM gleki wrote: >>>>>> > Sorry to say but I have to support Lindar's {granatu} Type 4 >>>>>> > fu'ivla. >>>>>> > Don't ask me for any logic in such decision cuz I said earlier there >>>>>> > could >>>>>> > be no logic in this field at all. >>>>>> >>>>>> It could be "granatu" or "granato" in my opinion, but I prefer both of >>>>>> them to >>>>>> "granate", which is the vocative, which was lost. >>>>>> >>>>>> Another possibility is "rimbone" or "rumbona", from Semitic, with "b" >>>>>> thrown >>>>>> in for the morphology. >>>>>> >>>>>> Pierre >>>>>> -- >>>>>> li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>>> lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> mu'o mi'e .aionys. >>>>> >>>>> .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o >>>>> (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D ) >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/SGgSkFT9VIcJ. >>>> >>>> To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> mu'o mi'e .aionys. >>> >>> .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o >>> (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D ) >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Lojban Beginners" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/Zkn6EUXdGYAJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. > > > > > -- > mu'o mi'e .aionys. > > .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o > (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D ) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.