[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

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

I just want to pre-empt the reply that I am expecting now.  'Geodesic dome' is not a concept of English which is ambigous and requires many different words in Lojban.

This is so because: "A geodesic dome is an almost spherical structure based on a network of struts arranged on great circles (geodesics) lying approximately on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and yet also distribute the stress across the entire structure.   The edges of the triangles create "geodesics," great circles of a sphere, to distribute stress across the sphere. (The use of patterns of triangles to approximate either a rougher or smoother shape is also fundamental to computer graphics.)" 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome

A geodesic dome thus means: a dome composed of geodesics.

Why can't their be a compound word in Lojban that means geodesic (triangle-circles?) and a root word that means dome???  I'd even settle for a compound word for dome too if it were only composed of two other words. (half-circle-dwelling?)

Otherwise Lojban is making a fairly simple concept overly complex I feel.