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Re: [lojban] Re: word for "www" (was: Archive location.)



In a message dated 9/12/2002 4:13:13 PM Central Daylight Time, araizen@newmail.net writes:

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I like lujvo that are exactly the
sum of their parts, and so far I have had relatively good luck with
them. (i.e. if I think long enough I can generally come up with a good
literalistic lujvo whose intended meaning is exactly the sum of its
parts.)

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I suspect that this is trivially true: once you find an _expression_ you like, you can then interpret the words involved and the way they are put together to exactly what you had in mind.  Whether anyone else will unpack it the same way depends a lot on where their head is.  Every lujbvo begins wirth a selection from the meanings of the underlying tanru and there are no rules (not even dikyjvo -- a case in point) for how this selection is to be made.  One may be "obvious" in the context -- but obviosity is in the eye of the beholder.