Re: [lojban-beginners] Complicated parallelism question

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Another, and actually even more common, approach is to invent a lujvo
> on the spot, which can even enrich the language if the lujvo you
> invent turns out to be generally useful.  For instance if you want to
> talk about learning the existence of things by reading, you might
> invent {tidzatcli} (tcidu zei zasti zei cilre).  Frankly, people (I'm
> looking at you, Xorxes and Gejyspa) usually actually just make up
> lujvo on the spot and use only their short forms and don't give a
> definition and expect you to decipher them and understand them from
> context!  Which surprisingly is often possible, if somewhat of a
> brain-stretcher.  But giving a definition could be helpful. :)

  ju'o ro prenu cu selpu'a lo nu benytcena .i lo nu smujungau da'i do
cu daspo lo za'i benzdi .i la jvozba cu se nelrai be mi tutci

   (btw, I note the Chinese President, Hu Jintao's given name, is
orthographically similar to the lojban "jinta'o", which I interpret to
be the shape of a washer (the hardware kind) or a ring galaxy)

   BTW2, nice to see you back active again, Stela.  I've missed you)

               --gejyspa

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