I see English computer terms= in Spanish sentences and it just sounds wrong to=20
me. I'd rather see "logicial" than "software". I've used "corriel" in S= panish=20
with no problem. I've also used "vepecista" (mail-order seller), which = I had=20
to explain, but the acronym "VPC" makes equally good sense in Spanish a= nd=20
French.

Sure that's opinions are going to differ greatly from= one to another person about this French names (and about somewhat artifici= al words imposed from an authority).

I think the way the French w= orlds that I was talking about has been imposed look like we fear to overwh= elmed by English culture and as if we were defensive.

When French= culture was strong and noblemen (not sure that's the word, I mean "people = from aristocracy") used French words that became in English the basis for a= lot of cooked food (for example, veal (from "veau") instead of calf the li= ving beast, pork (from "porc") instead of pig), there was not such a resist= ance from adopting the French sounding words.

There is an Icelandic academy, which = tries hard to keep non-Germanic=20
influences out of the language, but the word "f=EDll" (elephant) is fro= m=20
Arabic. It entered the language in the Old Norse stage, so it's grandfa= thered=20
in.

Interesting example! I keep on thinking that such lin= guistic "protectionism" only makes the language poorer.

There is an authority of th= e Lojban language, namely the BPFK, but we're=20
currently concerned with updating the CLL, resolving inconsistencies,= =20
defining unclear cmavo, and figuring out exactly what word forms are va= lid,=20
rather than forbidding words (on any basis other than phonotactic or=20
morphological) or coining new terms.

My opinion, which I've broken a few times, is that fu'ivla should be ta= ken=20
from:
*The six source languages, e.g. makpapi (poppy) from Russian and Englis= h.
*Taxonomic names, e.g. tarksako or tarsako (depending on morphology)=20
(dandelion), from the genus name.
*Sounds, e.g. kuerporuile (whippoorwill) from the Spanish and English w= ords,=20
which are both imitative. (bois-pourri in French)
*Local languages, e.g. turdunu (bullroarer) from some Australian langua= ge. I=20
tried "turndunu" first, but that's a type-3.

That's exactly the kind of info that i= s very useful for me, Thanks a lot! Here are 4 rules that I can apply to bu= ild words in lojban, and I'll stick to them until I know enough to have an = opinion about them.

Bruno

Pierre
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sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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