[lojban-beginners] Re: Dictionary output

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

On Sunday 28 June 2009 05:08:06 Johan Pretorius wrote:
> Forgive me, but you use big words I don't understand :-)
> At least, ones I can't find in any of the dictionaries I looked at...
>
>    - skrima (doesn't seem to break apart into rafsi either)
>    - slinku'i (Found a reference in CLL, but no explanation of its meaning)
>
> That said, I do understand your point, thanks.

A slinku'i (lo valsrslinku'i, as "slinku'i" is not a valid Lojban word) is a 
sequence of letters which contains at least two syllables and is not a valid 
gismu or lujvo, but when prefixed with a CV cmavo, results in a valid lujvo. 
In the case of "slinku'i", that lujvo is "paslinku'i", which makes more sense 
in Loglan than Lojban.

"skrima" is a slinku'i. Someone came up with "damskrima", for "to fence, in 
the sense of swordfight". This is a valid type-4 fu'ivla, but a badly formed 
borrowing (it should be "dambrskrima" for type 3 or "eskrima" for type 4). 
Its importance is to show a bug in jbofi'e, which considers "dambrskrima" 
valid but "damskrima" invalid.

Pierre