[lojban-beginners] dicussions about basic vocabulary

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Hello everybody,

Recently, I've asked for help to find Lojban equivalents to
"apparently simple" words like "neighbo(u)r" or "bicycle".
And I sometimes got several different replies and you have
started to discuss alternatives, meanings, pros and cons,
correcting each other, etc.

Is that because this is a beginners mailing list, i.e.
because some of you participants are beginners yourself and
struggle with words exactly as I do?

Or is it some intrinsic feature of Lojban itself? Meaning
that the Lojban vocabulary is not well defined (yet)?

Objetcs having several properties to focus on may be discribed
and, eventually, named differently. That probably holds for
any language. But for basic words (like the ones stated above)
most natural languages seem to have few alternatives and a
"classic" or "mainstream" solution (at least regionally).

Martin