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Re: [lojban-beginners] lujvo making help request
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:31:22AM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> In all honesty I hope to see more lujvo like this. It's about time that
> lojban started forging ahead with original words and ideas and stop
> worrying solely about having a word for every nuance of every english idea
> that we can come up with. And don't take this one personally .arpis., I've
> been harping on this one for a while.
I appreciated the idea of creating original words in the context
of the conversation about the word "cfisisku" (on the jbovlaste
mailing list), I think this word, "nikyge'u", is a poor example
of this practice.
There isn't anything essential to the idea of a story containing
exaggeration in that word. It is no different than "nickle cat"
or "gold dog." What metric do I use to determine whether this word
is a better definition than any alternate choice? The definition
is arbitrary.
This word is random; another randomly selected lujvo could be
equally plausible. I think that new words should have a minimum
level of plausibility such that a comparison to other choices can
be made.
-Alan
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