[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

["Jared Angell" <angell.jared@gmail.com>]

So 'rekyboldi'u' could be used to describe the class of all geosesic domes...but now I have learned that the type of geodome i was referring to is the specific type made of triangles (and what if I mean the type with windows, does this then make the word used even more complex?)

Does anyone guess my game here yet (I suspect Bob does and that he has already got the next move planned out)?  Because this exercise has already succeeded.

Djared (Farlus)

On 10/25/07, Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

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Jared

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