On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Luke Bergen
<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
After reading through the chapter on lujvo making in the CLL I'm beginning to wonder how important it really is to perfectly describe exactly what you want to mean.
If I were making a tanru to mean "checker pattern" I might need to use vlina kurfa dasri morna. But if the true meaning of a lujvo comes from it's definition and not strictly it's component gismu (we remove {sel} and {nun} all the time) then do we really need to describe it perfectly with ba'u 50+ gismu? Also, it seems to me that if only a couple of gismu are necessary to describe an idea without other ideas intersecting with it, why add more? Is there anything more obvious than "checker pattern" for kurfa morna to mean? Maybe later if someone wants to describe that pattern that a tic-tac-toe board makes they could make a bigger lujvo that pulls {linji} into it. But do we need to make every lujvo as big as the biggest lujvo necessary?
Therefore, unless many people object, I'm going to create a new word kurmo'a (I've already voted down prolijmo'a). I'll wait for a bit in case anybody is violently opposed to kurmo'a
Feel free to try. I quietly created that 4 days before this letter, when you wrote your original proposal, which I voted down. Feel free to vote thumbs up on it, though ;-)
--gejyspa