[jbovlaste] Re: crab

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You're welcome to provide a more accurate description of the sea-dwelling
> crustacean with the well-known trait of spending it's entire life attached
> to some surface such as the hull of a ship or the skin of a whale.

At the risk of turning this conversation productive, I'll propose za'e
"blojukni".

Actually, I kind of like that. I'd even be willing to bet any jbopre would immediately think of barnacle from that name. ki'ecai doi selckiku
 

We don't need any five part lujvo here, there are more than a thousand
two-parters that end in -jukni, and more than a million three-parters,
so for goodness' sake find something in that space.

And we certainly don't need any -kem-!  I would go so far as to say
that -kem- and -bor- should be elided in ANY lujvo that's meant for
long term use, unless there's a plausible useful distinct meaning of
the -kem-less version, which is quite rare. 

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

Meh. I was just offering quick tanru suggestions for the various creatures, to show my point. I fully expect that better, shorter descriptive names can be ascribed to all the aforementioned creatures, were we to actively try to do so.

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