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

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

I didn't know you can convert lujvo into fu'ivla.  Can you refer me to 
where that is described?  I couldn't find it in CLL.

totus



----- Original Message ----
> From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:40:00 PM
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lujvo into fu'ivla
> 
> 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