Re: [lojban-beginners] lujvo as prefix for fu'vla?

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

On Monday, April 30, 2012 14:32:26 MorphemeAddict wrote:
> Isn't there a problem with this loanword "semla" having the form of a
> gismu? Or does that not matter?

If it's used as the foreign part of a type-3 fu'ivla, what matters is only 
that it follows the phonotactic rules and doesn't contain 'y' and that the 
correct interfix is used. The foreign part can look like a gismu, a slinku'i, a 
lujvo, or a tosmabru. But if someone wanted to use "semla" by itself as a 
Lojban word for a particular kind of pastry, that is quite another matter. A 
particular kind of pastry, eaten in Northern Europe at a particular time of 
year, does not deserve a gismu.

Pierre
-- 
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera

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