[jbovlaste] Re: Random thought on how to make fu'ivla

[Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that we should make fu'ivla, at least sometimes, the
> way English does: by contracting annoyingly long compound words.
>
> Example: "cellphone", which is its own word short for "cellular
> telephone" (at least), which are themselves compounds if I'm not
> mistaken.  It seems to me that we could do something similar, by
> creating the crazy-long jvajvo word and then, if it's popular,
> ripping parts out in such a way as to create a *fu'ivla* rather than
> a less-jva-jvo
>
> Just a thought.

That's a very good idea, and I couldn't approve more.

This provides a middle ground between lujvo, which tend to become too
long, and fu'ivla, which are too arbitrary.

As a bonus, it blurs the lines between the different kinds of brivla,
which lines in my opinion are currently way too sharp: people seldom
talk about brivla, but often talk about gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla.

-- 
Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se