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



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
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!

... a word for when your phone vibrates with an email just seconds after you leave the office on a Friday afternoon.

nunmumdjedormijmlibavbijlivmlibavysamselmrifondesku, nu1=x1 is an event of phone desku1=fonxa1=x2 in phone network fonxa2=x3 shaking from e-mail samselmri1=desku2=x4 sent by samselmri2=x5 (agent) to samselmri3=x6 from computer samselmri4=x7 by computer system system samselmri5=x8 shortly after cliva1=x9 leaves office briju1=cliva2=x10 by route cliva3=x11 shortly after afternoon dormidju1=x12 of Friday mumdei1=dormidju2=x13 at location dormidju3=x14 of week mumdei2=x15 in calendar mumdei3=x16

I think it can be said for Lojban NOW. :D

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