[lojban-beginners] Re: three-letter gismu?

[HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com>]

doi .filip.

> And I think that the Angles got their name because they came from an
> angle-shaped piece of land.

That's possible... anyway, thanks!
 

la maikyl. pu ciska di'e .u'i
> After looking through the Lojbanic dictionary, I'm pretty certain that a
> lot of words can be trimmed. E.g:
> mamta -> nimrir
> patfu -> naurir
> verba -> selrir
> Infact, I can't believe there are gismu for some of the words. I would,
> for example (running finger down page) never had made "vinji"-airplane.
> Wouldn't varma'e be better? It is only one letter longer and saves
> people needing to learn that extra gismu.
Um... yeah. Not long after signing up to this list to this list I came to the same idea

only with {catlu}, {zgana} and - which I thought would replace both of them - {viska}.

Firstly, I agree with You that words like 'airplane' are very unnecessary, but what

hurts my feelings really is the arbitrary of these expressions. With some of them in,

some of them out the word-set of Lojban is a bit messy.

Secondly: for me those gismu (referring the parents, for example) hold and transmit

a lot more emotions than lujvo derived from root words.

And at last: there is no point looking to the past indeed. .uinai The vocabulary stays

what it is, with all its arbitrary and somewhat foolish choices.

mi'e .xili,odor.