Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Jargon and Abbreviations

[Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com>]

{.i .uicai .ua ki'e}

Are there rules/guidelines for making legal (i.e. non-clashing) zi'evla?
What stops {sorpece} from being read as {sorpe ce}?  Stress? {sorPEce} vs {SORpe ce}?

If I use the phrase {bacru fatci} (which I just kinda picked arbitrarily from a gismu list, I think meaning something like "spoken truth") frequently in some context, can I also abbreviate it {byfy}?

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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