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[lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary
- From: Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 23:13:24 +0200
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On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:32:01 Charles Duffy wrote:
> I'm just a beginner here myself -- but Lojban word formation is pretty
> flexible. {relxilma'e} is pretty well-established as meaning "bicycle"
> -- I've seen it used in that context before -- but one of several other
> possible words could be used, and your listener would still be able to
> generally understand what you mean by breaking down the word.
It's one of the oddities of Lojban - it's often presented as a logical,
unambiguous language, yet in practice it's very context-dependant. Seemingly
a paradox, but only seemingly.
Dominic
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