Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: pregnant

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 11 September 2010 23:23:56 H. Felton wrote:
> I'd been thinking myself that getting the second place of "jbena"
> into the word would be the best way of doing it; though, I wonder
> if the "sel" should be omitted to create a shorter lujvo; in The
> Draft Reference Grammar, chapter 12, section 9, it says "It is
> common to form lujvo that omit the rafsi based on cmavo of selma'o
> SE, as well as other cmavo rafsi. Doing so makes lujvo construction
> for common or useful constructions shorter."; since "bavjbe"
> (possibly needing a hyphen) would seem to be covered by "tarbi",
> and "pregnant" seems to be quite likely to be a fairly commonly
> used concept, we should favor the shorter word for a dictionary.

I am less inclined to omit SE from the last part of a lujvo; the only one I 
remember doing that to is "zilcmi", since a set with no members makes sense, 
but a member without anything to be a member of is nonsense. "bavjbe" can be 
used for "unborn". There is also such a thing as lo tarbi jenai 
bavjbe. "jbena" in oviparous animals refers to laying an egg; what's inside 
cu tarbi until it hatches.

Btw, one of my favorite words to say is "ovoviviparous".

Pierre
-- 
lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

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