[lojban-beginners] Re: Luddite

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:

> > "Luddite" apparently comes from the name of a Ned Lud,
> > an English laborer who was supposed to have destroyed 
> > weaving machinery around 1779, so maybe {prenrludu}?
> 
> For the person, sure, but for what "Luddite" means now?  That "prenr-" makes 
> it seem pretty specific.

Well, Luddites are people too. :) We don't normally make brivla
for one person. It would be hardly justifiable to borrow {prenrludu} 
for "x1 is the person Ned Lud".

The suffix -ite in this case means follower or adherent. Follower 
of Lud, or adherent of Luddism. I don't think this should be borrowed
as "ait" in Lojban. {lo selyli'e be la'o zoi Lud zoi}. But {selyli'e}
can't be used as a fu'ivla classifier...

I don't think {prenrludu} is a very good borrowing either, I just
find it slightly preferrable to {prenrludaitu}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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