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Re: [jbovlaste] diabetes

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Robert Prije <rob@bobturf.org> wrote:
Sorry, newbie jbovlaste member interjection here. Wouldn't a fu'ivla be better placed for this sort of thing? Diabetes is a pretty well-known cross-cultural word. Why not use a fu'ivla which would sound familiar to everyone everywhere?

Personally I just hate fu'ivla in general. I avoid using or making them like the plague. I guess I'm kind of like the French in that regard- they hate using English words for things and make their own instead (at least, the official language people do- I can't speak for the actual French themselves).

I honestly think we can describe anything using purely Lojban vocabulary, and further, I think we /should/.
 
Or just leave it as a cmene? la .dai,abitis. seems pretty usable to me. Unless for some reason we want a selbri place structure for this thing?

Of course, as I said, I'm a newbie, so I'm missing a ton of context on how this group thinks about these sorts of things. Apologies.



On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:
On Monday, January 07, 2013 22:01:21 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> I only know of two types of diabetes: the broken pancreas type (Type I),
> and the not responding properly type (Type II).

There's a third type, gestational diabetes.

On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 07:10:16 Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Actually, I was thinking of going with the etymology, though maybe not
> all of it.  Something like {titpincyterbi'a} or maybe better without the
> -ter-.  This is diabetes mellitus and not diabetes insipidus.

Sounds good. For a name, I'd say "titpinc".

Pierre
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