I forget this more often than I care to admit.

Anywho, I don't know fu'ivla morphology at all so I am totally at others' mercy when it comes to naming pokemon wi= th brivla. In other words, where I deprecated the cmevla for the items list= , please still keep two columns in the pokemon list. That way, if I come cl= ose to completing the game and that's the last holdup, I can finish it myse= lf.

I agree, though, it's not very useful, and should be removed.

Just to clarify, this was a bit of me making a statem= ent about brivla definitions. The place structure is for things that can ac= tually change within the definition, and there's no such thing as a water-t= ype Pikachu, only an electric-type. If I were putting it in jbovlaste, I'd = say

x1 is a Pikachu [electric-type pokemon] at level x2 trained b= y x3

(alternatively, the type would be in the notes)

In conversation, one could say

.i .ui mi kavbu lo br= oda

.i broda .uanai .i lo broda ku pokrjutsi ma

Also, {piktcu} is a proper lujvo, so you were using it as a nonce w= ord and isn't what you'd put for the actual term, right?

Yes, selpa'i had mentioned it in #lojban (why don't you come hang out
there with us ? :) )
Time -- sadly, I don't have enough of it. However, jb= onunsla has made me really get back into wanting to get on IRC. (That is, I= 'm back in the "Lojban! Cannot get enough of it!" mode. Have to get my fix!= ) So you may see me every now and then :)

we're technically not allowed to make up rafsi at all
That makes total sense. So, how about we = claim to only use the rafsi within the game universe? (That is: We made up = this rafsi for the pokemon games! It is only to be used to keep within char= acter limits, so it is inadvisable to use it outside the game. We hold no r= esponsibility on anypony using it in conv= ersation, and our translation is immediately deprecated if the BPFK decides= to assign it to a word.)

Keep in min= d, I say this because I know nothing about fu'ivla construction. If you can= figure out a way around using {pok} in any of our terms that keeps the cha= racter limit, be my guest.

> broda poi pokjutsi: x1 is a [broda] at level x2 trained by x3

Each pokemon brivla should probably encode the level. e.g. piktcu =3D x= 1
is a level x2 pikachu.
Pokemon brivla shouldn't include the trainer.
That makes {broda poi pokjutsi} unuseful, not to mention that it isn't
grammatical.
Sorry, I was trying to say "some brivla that is used = for a pokemon species." I was trying to restrict broda, not make some claim= that {lo broda poi pokjutsi} would be a useful phrase.

Now that I think of it, I really can't find much use/need/backing/rea= soning behind putting a trainer place in.

I suggest {pokrlei} for "pokemon type", in the sense of electric, ice,
water, fire, etc.
pokrlei =3D x1 is the type of pokemon x2.
Using this, we can say {lo piktcu cu se pokrlei lo dikca} "Pikachu is
an electric-type pokemon."
And what's wrong with {lo broda ku pokrjutsi lo dikca= }?
I would normally be not terribly opposed, but we are inventing= very niche jargon here, and it would be best to have a few very versatile = words rather than a lot that are used even less often.
(keep in m= ind, {lo se pokrjutsi} is useful, too)

I suggest {pokrtro} for "pokemon trainer".
Definit= ely. Yes to nonce modals. Yes to awesome.
However, I would like t= o start with {pokrjitro}. Changing between the two options is very easy goi= ng to {pokrtro}. If it's actually obnoxious, we'll just use {pokrtro}. In t= he meantime, let's give the fuller, longer words a chance.

(I have two other reasons for this:
I want this game to = be a good teacher, a game that very young ones (perhaps Robin's kids?) coul= d play someday and get a lot out of. It's far better to teach full gismu th= an rafsi.
I also want to reemphasize that we are crea= ting a jargon space of words. Jargon is well-known for being obnoxious to g= et the hang of when being introduced to a concept or community. Imagine if = 90% of the time you use {pokrtro} somepony goes ".uanai" and asks for what it means; it's far more likely for a fir= st-time use of {pokrjitro} somepony goes= "I know {jitro}! I get that." Also remember that in English, the primary j= argon word was "poke" -- everything else that was jargon was some combinati= on with it to make it obvious what it meant. That's what made it even easie= r to pick up.)

Basically, treat our {= pok} psuedo-rafsi like {tol}, {sel}, or other rafsi that are frequently add= ed to full gismu to nuance the meaning. This also means I'd like most insta= nces to not alter the place structures, merely assign it to be pokemon-rela= ted. Thus:
pokrjitro: x1 has control over/directs pokemon x2= in x3 (probably pokemon battle)

I suggest {pokrbi'o} for "evolve". pokrbi'o =3D x1 evolves into x2 unde= r
conditions x3. (giving a specific item, or reaching a certain level.)
Again, let's try {pokrbinxo} until it gets obnoxious.= Honestly, I question the usefulness of adding {pokr} here. There's a usefu= l difference between "pokemon trainer" and "trainer" but not between "evolv= es" and "transforms".

Note that I plan on translat= ing "What? [ko'a] is evolving!" into {.ue .i ko'a ca binxo}. I see nothing = gained by changing that to {.ue .i ko'a ca pokrbinxo}

<= div>However, this is the other reason I like using {pokr} in the same manne= r as {tol}, {sel}, etc. I can use normal {binxo} and you can use {pokrbinxo= } or even {pokrbi'o} and neither of us will really mind or get confused in = the conversation. Your words don't even have to be explicitly defined, prov= ided I've "experienced" an evolution process while playing the game.
<= div>
I'm going to shove these terms into a section of ((lai p= okemon.))

mu'o mi'e djos

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