From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 26 10:27:51 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlSyM-0005lJ-Kn for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:51 -0700 Received: from mail.bcpl.net ([204.255.212.10]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlSyH-0005kN-4W; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:27:50 -0700 Received: from webmail.bcpl.net (webmail.bcpl.net [204.255.212.24]) by mail.bcpl.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l9QHRbnM005664; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:27:37 -0400 (EDT) X-WebMail-UserID: turnip Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:27:37 -0400 From: turnip To: lojban-beginners , Robert LeChevalier X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002700 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome Message-ID: <47267F1A@webmail.bcpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: 2 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5684 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: turnip@bcpl.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners >===== Original Message From Robert LeChevalier ===== > >> I'm sorry, I'm new here, but tell me this... if someone knew all the >> basic vocabulary and the rules for creating new words, would they have >> a good chance of knowing what rekyboldi'u means without any context >> when they see it for the first time? What about with context? > >A frame-ball building. Sounds like it would be reasonably easy to >figure out. The proof of such puddings is in "phone-games" aka "whisper >down the line", which is something any would-be translator should >participate in, to get an idea of how easily their tanru and lujvo are >understood. > Bob, as the originator of rekyboldi'u, I appreciate your vote of confidence :-) doi lojbab le finti be zo rekyboldi'u be'o po'u mi ckire do lo nu do sarji mi --gejyspa