[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

["Joel Shellman" <jshellman@gmail.com>]

> > I would think one of the wonderful benefits of lojban is that you can
> > do this--create a word that is very precise in what you mean. Granted,
> > that would mean an enormous vocabulary, thus my question--can someone
> > decompose a word they've never seen before and most likely understand
> > what it should mean?
>
> I would say that there are many who could get the approximate meaning.
> Getting a place structure identical to that which the originator might
> have intended is a bit harder, especially without several places filled in.

Could you explain what you mean about getting the place structure
identical--what do you mean?

Looking at:

rekyboldi'u

for example, are there multiple ways that can be decomposed? Or do the
rules preclude that?

Hmmm... considering I just went to:

http://www.lojban.org/jboski/index.php.en (had to do a workaround to
make it work--doesn't seem to work as-is)

put in rekyboldi'u and it gives: frame-ish-sphere-ish-building(s)

It seems that if a program could determine what it means than that
answers my question, that decomposition is deterministic? If so,
besides being way cool, that should resolve any concern about having
too large a vocabulary--so long as you know the roots and the rules,
you have a good chance of at least getting the concept that is trying
to be conveyed.