[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

[Jay F Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:16:43PM -0500, Jared Angell wrote:
> 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.

In fact, it is a very specific concept. And the more precisely you can
to convey it, the more words you're going to need. As with anything,
in any language. Notice how it took you a whole (long) paragraph to
define it. Anything less than that will be a necessary abbreviation,
that generally works just fine because both parties have shared context.

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

Take a moment, and consider the utter meaninglessness of that statement.

> 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.

Lojban will convey some things more verbosely than other languages,
and some things will be conveyed less verbosely. This means Lojban is
actually a different language.

lojban-beginners was not intended for people to make opinioned
pronouncements about Lojban. Please take that elsewhere.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>