[jbovlaste] Re: crab

[Zarathustra Goertzel <Zar@goertzel.org>]

Agreed. I think one of the points of Lojban is to give as many words logical roots as possible. Why? We want to have a clue as to the meaning without having to look the word up in the dictionary. It can't be perfect, but if this aesthetic is ignored for a non-cultural word such as 'crab,' then Lojban will simply lose one of its advantages over many natural languages. I think most of us would rather not see this happen.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM, * Hieran Makhwali <sarefo@googlemail.com> wrote:

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

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

mi'e manti

I'm am very much in agreement with this. I am very much against fu'ivla in general (, anyone who has read my posts RE:{lo sutra zerle'a cpidze} already knows my vehemence on this subject), and much prefer describing something in Lojban unless such is not possible.

The other jbovlaste entry for snail, by the way, is {cakcurnu}, "shelled worm".

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