[lojban-beginners] Re: What's in a name?

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 14 pi'e 01 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Jameson Orndorff .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
> So, how is this properly interpreted? Is this 'belief in speech', 'speech
> about belief', or 'belief of a certain kind of speech'? 
.skamyxatra

The {tanru} "{krici bacru}" means "belief-type-of-speech" or
"speech-of-type-belief."  The exact interpretation of a {tanru} is always
semantically ambiguous & can vary from one instance to the next.  When a
{tanru} is made into a single word (a {lujvo}), the person creating the {lujvo}
is usually the one who assigns an explicit meaning to it; if this meaning is
not readily available to the audience, they may misinterpret the word.  Yes,
this may seem highly un-Lojbanic, but it's practically impossible to achieve
complete semantic unambiguity in any language without either severely limiting
the set of possible expressions or else requiring overly verbose strings of
words to express simple thoughts.

> When kribacru is converted to a name, does that imply that it is 'someone who
> does', i.e. a 'speaker of truth' or is there no implication of it being a
> person who engages up on the act of 'kribacr'?

Names are just names, labels assigned to people for referring to them by.  A
name implies nothing about the one who has it; you may be a speaker of truth,
or you may be a pathological liar who was given an ironic nickname.  You could
even be a walking advertisement for Lojban Djos' Truth Serum (now with extra
truthiness!).  Names have no semantic implications -- except for my name.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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