Re: [lojban-beginners] How long should a word be marked with "za'e"?

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

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 05:22:17 Stela Selckiku wrote:
> How long should a word be marked with "za'e"?  Does it mean that a
> word is being used for the very first time, or should it be used as
> long as a word is likely to be unfamiliar or isn't yet found in
> dictionaries?
>
> I'm thinking particularly of a situation that I often find myself in:
> I want to use a word that I already thought of a long time ago, but I
> only used it a few times before, and no one has particularly noticed
> it, or at least no one uses it except me.  Should I mark those words
> with "za'e" when I bring them out again?

I don't use it often if at all, but I think it warrants use if a word is used 
in a different sense than the normal meaning (common in mathematics, 
where "ring" and "group" have meanings completely different from the normal), 
or if it's a lujvo whose meaning is unlikely to be figured out.

Btw, I don't think that the usual words "djine" and "girzu" and "foldi" should 
be used for the mathematical meanings. They are types of girzu (the ring, 
IIRR, is dilcygri), but just plain "girzu" is not right. "Continuous", 
though, is close enough to the normal meaning.

Pierre
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