[lojban-beginners] Re: feathered serpent

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 11:17 PM 5/30/03 +0200, G Dyke wrote:
> Invent Yourself wrote:
> The only time there's a reason for a "selbroda" style lujvo is if it's a
> > > commonly used concept and it makes the word shorter - for example,
> > > "selbri".
> > I always prefer them. And it's been argued that they are easier to hear.
> but they are lujvo. as such, they should represent some canonical meaning 
> which is probably different from se broda

Not necessarily.  They should represent some canonical meaning which the 
user thinks of a being a unitary concept of the sort s/he wants to 
represent by a single word.

lojbab

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