From lojbab@lojban.org Fri May 30 15:28:06 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 30 May 2003 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao04.cox.net ([68.1.17.241]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19LsM2-0000hC-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 15:28:06 -0700 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030530222736.RDEA13930.lakemtao04.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:27:36 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030530182227.0339f250@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 18:26:58 -0400 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org From: Robert LeChevalier Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: feathered serpent In-Reply-To: <3ED7CA56.6070705@bluewin.ch> References: <20030530145146.Y11161-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> <20030530145146.Y11161-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-archive-position: 357 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners At 11:17 PM 5/30/03 +0200, G Dyke wrote: >Invent Yourself wrote: >The only time there's a reason for a "selbroda" style lujvo is if it's a >>>commonly used concept and it makes the word shorter - for example, >>>"selbri". >>I always prefer them. And it's been argued that they are easier to hear. >but they are lujvo. as such, they should represent some canonical meaning >which is probably different from se broda Not necessarily. They should represent some canonical meaning which the user thinks of a being a unitary concept of the sort s/he wants to represent by a single word. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org