tanru exercise

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 2004-09-22 5:21:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jim Carter <jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU> via 
ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> It's an article of faith that people are supposed to be able to understand 
> a lujvo, or its underlying tanru, that they have never heard before.  
> Usually it works pretty well, but this one fell on its face.  


No, I think the test worked very well.  It just shows that the concept is not one that people were familiar enough with to know what you were talking about, especially since there was NO context at all, which is unrealistic.

stevo