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Re: [lojban] la za'e filjvocedra (The Age of Easy Lujvo)
I'm not sure where this thread started or what filjvo are but ...
Stela Selckiku wrote:
And you forgot to mention zan- and mal-!
Yeah, those are good ones!
I'm wondering what other gismu could be similarly productive. Here
are some ideas, of varying quality, with examples:
banli (bal, ba'i), za'e "balbra", banli zei barda, grandly large.
bredi (red, bre), za'e "klabre", klama zei bredi, ready to go.
...
Not all of those are really all that productive. But in trying to
think of some I did notice some patterns.
At one time, my plan for the dictionary was to take individual words and
build families of 2-place lujvo around them, kinda like building a
thesaurus, but without necessarily having the words already there. I
would in fact have used an English thesaurus as PART of the source,
because it shows a breakdown of related concepts. Come up with lujvo to
express the fine distinctions of the family of words for an English
thesaurus entry, and then add others for other distinctions you can see
just as part of making those words, and you quickly grow the vocabulry.
Furthermore, all the place structures tend to be similar, and the
toughest part of making new Lojban words has always been figuring out
what the place structure should be.
One is emotion words, it's easy to tack them onto an action to also
show how the actor felt about the action, like putting xer- (xenru) on
something to show it was done regretfully or putting gek- or gei-
(gleki) to show it was done happily.
How about just having a set of gismu and lujvo to cover all the emotions
expressed by the attitudinals, including some of those expressed as
compound attitudinals, with some fine distinctions we don't typically
make in English because they pop up naturally in lojban, say, with the
ro'V modifiers. One can easily imagine there could be a couple hundred
emotion lujvo, all with essentially the same place structure (which is
my idea of "easy lujvo").
Colors are another area. Pink, rose, aqua, mauve, sepia. Lots of
obscure English color words, and a raft of obscure Lojban color lujvo
could be just as useful.
Words for a variety of different academic fields and subjects - like all
the "ologies" of English.
If this were done, then the families of lujvo based off particular words
would tend to emerge naturally as people saw what was useful for making
the distinctions.
lojbab
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