[lojban-beginners] Re: lujvo into fu'ivla

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 10 April 2009 13:55:55 tijlan wrote:
> A lujvo for "motorcycle" would most likely be
>
>  matryrelxilma'e
>
> But it sometimes sounds too long for me to use around. So, as an
> experiment, I created a fu'ivla out of it:
>
>  trxlma'e
>
> The idea is basically to 1) omit the vowels from the seltau(-ish)
> part, 2) remove any impermissible initial consonant pairs or other
> clusters, 3) remove any repeating letters for the sake of simplicity,
> 4) and adapt it to a valid fu'ivla form
> (http://www.lojban.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Exhaustive+list+of+short+fu
>%27ivla+forms) if necessary. My example went like this:
>
> 0) matryrelxilma'e
> 1) mtrrlxlma'e
> 2) trlxlma'e
> 3) trxlma'e
> 4) trxlma'e (no adaptation required)
>
> What do you think about it?

I suggest "atrilma'e" instead. "trilma'e" is a slinku'i, so "atrilma'e" is 
valid.

Pierre