[lojban-beginners] Re: How to say 'spork'?

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

{mucfro} or {frosmuci}. The former is shorter, but has an unpleasant
consonant cluster. You don't normally need things like joi, jev or bor
inside lujvos, because you can always define them as you like.

mu'o mi'e ianek

On 14 Mar, 19:48, iesk <pa....@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like sporks. As I habitually eat my food with a spork (portmanteau
> of 'spoon' and 'fork'), I seriously zo'o need a word for 'spork'.
>
> I tentatively propose:
>
> ??mucyjoifro: x1 is a spork/combined spoon and fork for use x2
>
> The obvious disadvantage: That word is terribly long. I like sporks
> and talk about them very much, and I'd prefer having a short word,
> rather like 'spork' or German 'Göffel' ['gœfl̩]. So I further propose,
> most tentatively:
>
> ??ucfo: x1 is a spork/combined spoon and fork for use x2 (etym.: from
> '[sm]uc[i joi] fo[rca])
>
> What do you think? Also on whether the additional places of 'smuci'
> and 'forca' should better be kept in a word for spork?
>
> -iesk
>
> PS: Did I say I like sporks?

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