[lojban] nonce lujvo? (was: Beginner's take on the open/closed gismu debate)

["sshiskom" <mathmaniac@hanmail.net>]

>> ...problem is the tendency for some users to introduce nonce lujvo
>> (e.g. in Chapter 2 of "Alice in Wonderland", I see the word
>> "camri'ojvebla" ?!?)

> Trust me, that was easy: I have a vague knowledge of very few rafsi
> and I can recognize maybe half the gismu, but I can recognize
> "intense green and blue" easily. I am worried that this became
> a lujvo. Is it for meter or something? why wasn't it just
> {carmi crino je(bo) blanu}?

To make it more believable, here's a comment from two-month-old
Lojbanist: it IS easy to recognize. {cam} for {carmi}, {ri'o} for
{crino}, {bla} for {blanu} I recognized easily, and with a little
effort I could remember that {je} has two rafsi, {jev} and {jve}.

I write this, because I know what you feel. lujvo looked bewildering
when I first started Lojban, too. But it really isn't. Here I'm
not saying that memorizing rafsi are easy, but once you know rafsi,
seperating components from lujvo needs just a little excercise.

By the way, I agree to Dyke that tanru seems more appropriate in
this case, although I didn't look up the context.

mi'e sanxiyn.


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