[lojban-beginners] Re: Hungary??

["Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@gedas-onsite.de>]

la .xili,odor. cu cusku di'e
> > fu'ivla
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand that one... <:-)

fu'ivla are "borrowed words" (literally, "copied words").

Type-3 fu'ivla, which I've shown here, use a gism (first four letters of a
gismu) + linking consonant (usually -r- unless forbidden by the surrounding
letters) + something based on the original word. (And they have to end in a
vowel, like all brivla.)

> M-kay, but where did You get {madjaro} from, which I cannot
> suppose non-madjaro people to understand since it comes from
> Hungarian ("magyar" [madiar.])?!

They have to look it up in the dictionary.

Just like people seeing an English word "floccinaucinihilipilification" for
the first time have to do.

I chose something based on the Hungarian word; theoretically one could have
made e.g. {gugdrxangari} but I think that basing it on the native word is
preferable.

BTW I wasn't thinking well when I wrote {gugdrmadjaro} -- {gugdrmadiaro}
would probably have been better. Or maybe {gugdrmagiaro}. (I had forgotten
the pronunciation of |j| in Lojban for a moment.)

mu'o mi'e .filip.