Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: zo'oi pomegranate se fanva fu ma

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

Er, no? The rationale behind using -e and not -u is that the final
vowel from the fu'ivla head is -e and because in latin, the final
vowel is not really a true constituent of the *word*. The root itself
ends in a consonant, and therefore the final vowel has little real
bearing on the meaning, aside from grammatical implications. So no,
this isn't a malgli fu'ivla at all, especially considering that in
English, the word doesn't even end in a vowel (in speech, of course),
so "pomegranate" is lojbanised to {pamygranet} (probably, I'm no
expert on lojbanisation; I prefer to use real lojban words over
lojbanisations any day).

What'd be unjustifiably malglico would be {grutrpamagranete} and that
certainly isn't the case with {grutrgranate} which is justified in all
aspects.

mu'o mi'e la tsani

On 8 July 2012 03:49, Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
> In all honesty my biggest complaint is the nagging idea that you prefer
> {granate} to {granatu} and named it thus because of the English name for the
> item and not the linnean name as is customary. It's my own weird
> twitch-reaction, but I'm going to cry malglitarmi on this simply for the
> fact that it is anything more than vaguely similar. It has nothing to do
> with a preferred final vowel and everything to do with the fact that you're
> making stuff look like English because you speak English.
>
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