[lojban-beginners] Re: zgana, viska, catlu

[HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com>]

> We can't have this perfectly. While creating the Lojban project it
> was discovered that this was impossible. You could break up {ninmu}
> "woman" into pieces: {fetsi remna} "female human." But then you can
> break up human into pieces as well. And you can break up female into
> pieces. You can break up viska, and sudden, and intentional, into
> multiple words. But this would never stop because you could break up
> those words too.

I see my mistake now: I've thought there was an end of the *chain*, while the system of meanings was a complete *network* not ending anywhere.

> You used logflash to learn the list, and so you aren't familiar with
> the place structure of each word. I'm using Supermemo and learning the
> entire place structure of each word as I go along.

Hm... sounds great. Where can I get it?

> And in any case the gismu list is completely frozen for all eternity
> (until language drift kicks in) so no complaining etc. etc. I think
> it's still a much better situation than any other language.

No doubt at all.

 

Sorry about all the misunderstanding of {zgana}'s meaning "observe" (instead of "see"),

and thanx for the answers.

 

heliodor