Received: from mail-gy0-f189.google.com ([209.85.160.189]:62886) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S7tlx-00006r-F5; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:22:10 -0700 Received: by ghbf14 with SMTP id f14sf3227292ghb.16 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:22:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ckg7SMsbtMSCzrJzaz2cFctTjQWe9h0p7PKpwms0Ubg=; b=sM8zY+ogq2jHibI3T1+rrHXJJj73VFI2+qrD7dHlwG98TfZQNez/jpVzUUJgTWZSDV BWsmWF8A30xxF6eD6q2CMRgYtpdcW6RnnLskJwsmO3dPVzf4ExIoy5sUhXV5ISYL/rmm yrBRmyjxAS7o0WqzdaU+A7bDYQYxbT6BMj5EQ= Received: by 10.52.74.233 with SMTP id x9mr430688vdv.15.1331752899066; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:39 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.128.139 with SMTP id k11ls1296916vcs.5.gmail; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.37.101 with SMTP id x5mr437971vdj.4.1331752897990; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by j14g2000vbc.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say 'spork'? From: ianek To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: janek37@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of janek37@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=janek37@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 1406 {mucfro} or {frosmuci}. The former is shorter, but has an unpleasant consonant cluster. You don't normally need things like joi, jev or bor inside lujvos, because you can always define them as you like. mu'o mi'e ianek On 14 Mar, 19:48, iesk wrote: > Hi, > > I like sporks. As I habitually eat my food with a spork (portmanteau > of 'spoon' and 'fork'), I seriously zo'o need a word for 'spork'. > > I tentatively propose: > > ??mucyjoifro: x1 is a spork/combined spoon and fork for use x2 > > The obvious disadvantage: That word is terribly long. I like sporks > and talk about them very much, and I'd prefer having a short word, > rather like 'spork' or German 'G=C3=B6ffel' ['g=C5=93fl=CC=A9]. So I furt= her propose, > most tentatively: > > ??ucfo: x1 is a spork/combined spoon and fork for use x2 (etym.: from > '[sm]uc[i joi] fo[rca]) > > What do you think? Also on whether the additional places of 'smuci' > and 'forca' should better be kept in a word for spork? > > -iesk > > PS: Did I say I like sporks? --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@= googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= -beginners?hl=3Den.