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Subject: [lojban] Re: {fu'ivla} has too few places
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:11:02PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> {fu'ivla} as defined in noralujv has four places:
> 1. the word of foreign origin
> 2. the meaning
> 3. the language
> 4. the word in the foreign language.
>
> It is unclear whether x3 is the language the fu'ivla is in or the
> language it came from, 

Erm, fu'ivla can only be Lojban I should think.  I can see why you'd
want a more general word, but it's not fu'ivla IMO.

> and in which language x2 is the meaning

Huh?  We're only talking about one concept at a time here; this is
Lojban.

-Robin

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