Re: [lojban-beginners] Jargon and Abbreviations

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1) How does lojban deal with jargon?  Mathematical jargon has been
> considered, but what about others?  In materials science, a "dislocation"
> means something completely different and only marginally related to what it
> means in medicine.  Do we just use the same word and rely on the fact that
> we're talking about people and not copper?

The place structure for "dislocation" will probably be something like
"x1 is a dislocation of x2 in x3", so if x2 is a bone you know what
kind of dislocation you are talking about.

> 2) Is there a lojbanic solution to the fact that people really like to
> shorten long, frequently used phrases?  It's inherently ambiguous in the way
> that lojban doesn't like, right?

Lujvo and fu'ivla are open classes of words, so there's always room
for new words when needed.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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