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

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 4/10/2009 13:58:24 Eastern Daylight Time, pascal.akihiko@gmail.com writes:


> 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?
>
> mu'o mi'e tijlan


It sort of defeats the purpose of having word-building blocks like gismu and rafsi if you can't decompose the word.
If the lujvo "matryrelxilma'e" is too long for frequent use, then start with it and then simplify it to the gismu of its last rafsi: "marce".

stevo