From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Thu Jan 14 20:32:25 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:03:23 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6786; Thu, 14 Jan 93 17:02:14 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 3831; Thu, 14 Jan 93 17:00:02 EST Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 20:32:25 +0000 Reply-To: And Rostangle w Sender: Lojban list From: And Rostangle w Subject: Re: TECH: se, te, & lujvo X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET, Logical Language Group To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: (Your message of Fri, 08 Jan 93 06:15:50 EST.) <9301081115.AA03450@daily.grebyn.com> Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: > Not a lot of reason to turn se jerna into seljerna. But then, why did > we turn grand father into grandfather back when the two were synonymous, > as I presume they once were. If people come to think of a concept as a > single word, or as worthy of a single word, they will do so. A better example is _spark plug_ vs. _sparkplug_/_spark-plug_. These are not synonymous: the first is a tanru (plug associated in some way with spark), and does not have an entry in the dictionary; the second is a lujvo, a single word, warranting its own entry in a dictionary, which refers specifically to a component of an internal combustion engine. ---- And.