From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 11 11:19:56 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:19:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUPnv-0007yv-D2 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:19:56 -0800 Received: from mail-gx0-f225.google.com ([209.85.217.225]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUPng-0007pU-Cu for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:19:45 -0800 Received: by gxk25 with SMTP id 25so4999771gxk.5 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:19:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=G0WmmiTLf8v9PoNzAfp2ovJhpr68Y7TysPiTznlBzA4=; b=NGJmbqw2M4Ac2i8Yq16H2EQrzevbjsZnSyY53uN36ctdkXqlrQ/J4j+qPsAZci6Z2Y AXJFgrhQh92Hi2OviAVzYZBHHFzMKgoEc+hs+JgvGwApWLR/SfgWGO/FdCLiiB0cOD6b Ehyaglv3pVx5ATLuYOkGJKv3cGk3x1iniqYoo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ecax7kr5/t4KrHLYC3wYNvvFZbzEqZfd6uantr23rLMpEd5S81sHQPwwi8cVUF/gfL gLuKG8zTuBCOrE2ad925LZb9bx2eUFCwpqdwqT2yLySyohdTKdM5uKHQtc03FFsrCZT7 MOVzQcGQXGR4pBIc+Aem3pBNCiir3G8xfkx1Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.254.7 with SMTP id b7mr2254751ybi.137.1263237573381; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:19:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100111191131.GF7910@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20100111191131.GF7910@digitalkingdom.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:19:33 -0500 Message-ID: <5715b9301001111119pc7e5edcm571f7ee31a0aee77@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: Random fu'ivla formation thought. From: Luke Bergen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd34dfad4105d047ce86a3b X-archive-position: 16813 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lukeabergen@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --000e0cd34dfad4105d047ce86a3b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Is there a lojban equivalent for "deja vu"? On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robin Lee Powell < rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > 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. > > --000e0cd34dfad4105d047ce86a3b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there a lojban=A0equivalent=A0for "deja vu"?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digit= alkingdom.org> wrote:
It seems to me that we should make fu'i= vla, at least sometimes, the
way English does: by contracting annoyingly long compound words.

Example: "cellphone", which is its own word short for "cellu= lar
telephone" (at least), which are themselves compounds if I'm not mistaken. =A0It 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: =A0"The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons.&= quot;
And I'm =A0thinking: =A0"Does it even occur to you to try for some= thing
other =A0than =A0the default =A0outcome?" =A0See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http= ://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/


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