I've been using the dictionary server at port 2628 of www.lojban.org to look up various words - and I've come across something I don't understand. I thought that a given brivla would always have its sumti numbered with the same symbol, such as
x1 comes/goes to destination x2 from origin x3 via route x4 using means/vehicle x5.
However, look at the output I got for li'avro:
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Definition: v1 is an exit out of c2.
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What bothers me is that it's apparantly using two different symbols for the same selbri... am I missing something obvious here?
It's not obvious. {li'avro} is a lujvo formed from {cliva} and {vorme}. So the definition is saying that the x1 of {li'avro} is the x1 of {vorme}, & the x2 of {li'avro} is the x2 of {cliva}.
Thank you, that would seem to make sense. It does lead me to more questions:
How is it decided which sumti goes in which position? Is this something that is consciously (arbitrarily) chosen when the lujvo is taken into the dictionary, or are there rules governing it?
Also, if I come across a lujvo that I do not know, how can I be sure where one rafsi ends and another begins, apart from knowing the full list of all rafsi on the tips of my fingers (surely there are multiple thousands...)?
mu'o mi'e iu'an