[lojban-beginners] Re: Jargon and Abbreviations

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> As for abbreviations, I meant things like Americans shortening "television"
> to "TV" or Francophones shortening "sympatique" to "sympa", and I was also
> thinking about acronyms a bit, e.g. MADD (mothers against drunk driving).
>
> I'd assume that lojban would forbid both types.

Quite the contrary. For example, we refer to the baupla fuzykamni as
byfy. Also, fu'ivla don't necessarily have to be borrowed from a
language. zi'evla are fu'ivla from our own language (lojban), or
completely new words as the case may be. They aren't used a lot, but
there exist fu'ivla/zi'evla of longer lujvo. For example, one might
shorten {sorprekarce} (bus) to {sorpece} or some such thing.

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