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

Flexibility and synonymy is great but sometimes we need to choose one way not to be misunderstood by others.

On Monday, July 9, 2012 10:05:56 AM UTC+4, aionys wrote:

Should? I can't answer that. Do it if you want to.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:10:36 PM UTC+4, aionys wrote:
Personally, being one of those people who hates fu'ivla of any kind, I like {tsiplise}, myself.

(facepalm)
I like this word too. Should I create a third version of this pixra?

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Sunday, July 08, 2012 01:10:26 AM gleki wrote:
> Type 3 fu'ivla is not unnaturalistic at all. Ancient Egyptian (ju'ocu'i the
> eldest written language that we are aware of)
> actually had such type of words.
> e.g.

> [image: nfr][image: nfr][image: nfr][image: pr] pronounced as *nfrw *means

> "foundations of a house" where [image: pr] means house in order to

> distinguish it from other homophones pronounced as *nfrw* as well.

>
> It's like {grutrgranate} and {tricrgranate} in Lojban.

The Egyptian writing system has nothing to do with rafsi classifiers on
borrowed words. A better natlang example of a type-3 fu'ivla is "weeverfish"
(or "weaverfish"), where "weever" is from Old French and "fish" is native.

On Sunday, July 08, 2012 01:11:35 AM gleki wrote:
> Sorry to say but I have to support Lindar's {granatu} Type 4 fu'ivla.
> Don't ask me for any logic in such decision cuz I said earlier there could
> be no logic in this field at all.

It could be "granatu" or "granato" in my opinion, but I prefer both of them to
"granate", which is the vocative, which was lost.

Another possibility is "rimbone" or "rumbona", from Semitic, with "b" thrown
in for the morphology.

Pierre
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