On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:Don't agree on pixel art tiles. In general, any seamlessly wrapping
>>checkboards, uneven and even grids, bricks or pavement tiling, tartan,
>>certain carpet patterns, zigzag stitching, pixel art tiles
>>(particularly the older, low res ones)...
> So these would be those words that I was talking about when I said
>> 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
> I think checker boards, pixel art tiles, and a brick wall all exhibit a
> pattern that is a variation on the basic, standard check pattern.
piece of pixel art qualifies as kurmo'a, because , even if it depicts
a circle, it does so by the composition of rectangular/square elements
in a grid (where the pixels are often shown large enough to see
individual ones clearly.) That's not really very similar to a
checkerboard at all IMO.
Fair enough. I probably need to do more reading of CLL.
> So, is it
> fair to say that the more general/standard the idea, the smaller the lujvo
> can comfortably be? While the more specific/non-standard/varied ideas get
> longer lujvo?
> e.g. {cicti'a} = "storm" but when we want to get more specific we have
> {bifyvilcarvi} = "windstorm"
> So for instance, I wanted to define the word originally because I wanted to
> translated "handsome checked suit". That seems like a pretty general use of
> the word to me.