[jbovlaste] Re: crab

["* Hieran Makhwali" <sarefo@googlemail.com>]

i just want to prevent we end up going down this road:

http://jbovlaste.lojban.org//dict/skargolu

mi'e manti


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:52 PM,  <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't see this as "culturalization" it seems to me something along the
> lines of the gismu choice (we have patfu and mamta, after all!). I would say
> that is in line with the lojban spirit to go back to the orginal roots of
> the words (latin, greek, proto-indoeuropean, chinese, arabic, ...) for
> common use words. Something that could be common to a high number of people.
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> I would revert to fu'ivla based on taxonomy or other scientific names only
> if I want to indicate explicitly which type of animal I'm talking about.
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> I consider "culturalization" to propose, for example, to base a word on
> "chicken" to mean "coward" and this is clearly a no-no.
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> On , * Hieran Makhwali <sarefo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> pierre, i'm well aware of your continuing efforts to culturalize
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>> lojban. i don't think this is the way to go.
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>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Pierre Abbat phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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>> > On Thursday 16 September 2010 11:55:23 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
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>> >> Why not stick to something generally recognizable
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>> >> or based on Linnaean?
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>> >> fu'ivla type III:    juknrbrakiura
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>> >> fu'ivla type IV:    barkura/brakiura (yes, they probably need to be
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>> > "braxiura" (I prefer the 'x' since it's from a Greek chi) is perfectly
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>> > jbofi'e seems to think it's a lujvo (it translates it as "being big
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>> > I think the set of people who know the scientific name of crabs is much
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