On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, cariar.jermanis.
<primitive_tetrapod@yahoo.com> wrote:
Lincro suggested "jbi(pi'e)banfi" if I wanted to express that a metamorphizing tadpole is an "almost/near-frog." Perhaps I will use that to describe an evolutionary ancestor of frogs
You had wanted "froglet - naru'epipybanfi (naru'e + pipybanfi; almost-frog)", which, as I said, doesn't work as a lujvo. "jibni"(->jbi), on the other hand, is the gismu equivalent of "na ru'e" (almost, not quite). But if you really want to express something becoming a frog from an earlier state, I suggest you look towards "farvi" for your root gismu.
ni'o How did you see my name as Lincro? It's true that I use that as a sign in name for yahoo mail, but since I never use that email account for anything, and replied to this list (as I do all my mail) using my gmail account, how did "Lincro" come up? (I also didn't sign my letter lincro) This is more than a little disturbing to me. There should be zero correspondence between the two accounts. (note to jbopre: despite its lujvo-ish form, "Lincro" has nothing to do with "chain pain". It was the randomly-generated name of a fox familiar of one the PCs (not mine) in a AD&D campaign I ran for seven years, back before most of you were born (lojbab being the big exception ;-)), and before the existence of lojban. (Although I did already use Loglan for the ancient common language of the humans and dwarves))\
--gejyspa