From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 11 11:11:41 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUPfw-0006mb-IR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:11:40 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUPfn-0006hx-I6 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:11:31 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:11:31 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Random fu'ivla formation thought. Message-ID: <20100111191131.GF7910@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 16812 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list It seems to me that we should make fu'ivla, at least sometimes, the way English does: by contracting annoyingly long compound words. Example: "cellphone", which is its own word short for "cellular telephone" (at least), which are themselves compounds if I'm not mistaken. It seems to me that we could do something similar, by creating the crazy-long jvajvo word and then, if it's popular, ripping parts out in such a way as to create a *fu'ivla* rather than a less-jva-jvo Just a thought. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.