Re: [lojban] la za'e filjvocedra (The Age of Easy Lujvo)

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

ta'onai

I was reading a book by Cory Doctorow and he makes reference at one point to "Fingerspitzengefühl" a german word that means <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl>.  He then talks about how the german language is able to smush lots of small words together until you end up with a long but incredibly precise word that means something that is very hard to express in other languages without having to write out long sentences to describe the thing.

I hope that one day people say that of lojban.  That's what I hope lujvo will help us do.  That's what I was talking about earlier when I said that it's slightly irritating when I see lots of lujvo being defined, all of which are other languages words.  Let's make some lojban originals!

2010/10/5 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then why does the word {lujvo} even have an x4?

Indeed. What's the "metaphor" from which the lujvo "selbri" is built,
for example?

Most lujvo are not the least bit metaphorical.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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