Re: [lojban-beginners] Define "define"

["Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

Luke Bergen wrote:
> This brings up another question for me though.  In general, if I have a 
> lujvo like {zanfri} and then I coin a new lujvo like {selzanfri}... 
> would it be understood as {sel (zanfri)} which would be something like 
> "a favorable happening"?  Or would it be understood as {(selzan)fri} 
> which would be something like... well I guess I'd still interpret that 
> as a favorable happening.  But my question is:  if there is a well 
> understood lujvo with 3 or 4 slots, and then someone comes along and 
> makes a new lujvo with {sel} or some such tacked on to the front, should 
> I read that lujvo as {se <lujvo>} or as a brand new lujvo where the 
> {sel} applies to the first rafsi and not the whole lujvo?

The default should be that it probably applies to the first word, 
because you can do selkem-- to force the longer scope.

BUT Zipf doesn't support adding in superfluous extra terms, so if the 
short scope "se" has so obvious meaning, while the longer scope "se" has 
a meaning that would make sense in the context, I would presume the 
longer scope.

lojbab
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