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[lojban-beginners] "biker gangs"



I was mulling over the sample discussed here a while back that, in its
initial form, used "relxilma'e zekri girzu" to mean "biker gangs".

Quite aside from using "relxilma'e" to mean "motorcycle" as distinct
from "bicycle" (it seems to me that it really refers to both), someone
pointed out that "relxilma'e zekri girzu" actually means "cycle-crime
group", not the desired "cycle crime-group", suggesting using something
like "bo" or "ke".

It occurred to me that it also might work to say something like
"(matra) relxilma'e zergri".  Now, I'm not sure if "zergri" is a valid
lujvo (while there's no reason obvious to me why it wouldn't be, I'm
hardly an expert), but is the basic approach - tying two fragments of a
tanru together by converting them to a lujvo - reasonable?

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