[lojban-beginners] geodesic domes

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 10/27/2007 4:23:56 AM Central Daylight Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> I do favor the use of short general lujvo when indeed there are likely 
> to be multiple longer concepts that will be made from it.  I don't think 
> that applies here.  There are rather limited numbers of dome structures, 
> fewer still whose frame-structure is an important part of the concept. 
> Of those, only geodesic domes are a sufficiently coherent concept that 
> we would plausibly consider a single word for that concept.  For the 
> other sorts of domes I mentioned, I would likely include a hint at their 
> function in a lujvo, because its dome-nature stems from that function.


One could just use a tanru, consisting of a word for 'geodesic' and a word for 'dome'.  There doesn't need to be a lujvo for it, at least not right away.

stevo