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Re: [lojban] Re: larger brodV - what do you think



On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:58:15PM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> Well, there's za'e.  Too bad za'e doesn't have a rafsi; it would be pretty
> handy for that.  (Actually, za'e doesn't seem to be assigned as a rafsi to
> anything.)  Or you could go the type 3 fu'ivla route, and prefix your
> words with brodr-, which would pretty well mark them as nonportable, while
> giving you a large space of legal words.  And as far as I can tell, it
> would be perfectly baseline compliant, and pretty easily understandable.

That is a nice extension - you could get a whole lot of words simply of
the form brodrfu, brodrba, etc. Of course, the brodr- part still gets
repetitive, and you can't get rafsi from them.

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mu'o mi'e rab.spir