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Re: [lojban] Vocabulary

At 01:47 AM 06/30/2000 +0200, Elrond wrote:

First, I needed a tanru/lujvo for role-playing games. There are many lujvo
out there that are related to role-playing, but there exist none to cover
the global concept itself. I was thinking of
      xarpre nunkeici'e
but it does not cover the whole meaning....
Unfortunately, I have no idea how to discuss this, since the "whole meaning" is something that is a very controversial topic within the role playing game community. Your lujvo focusses on the fantasy character aspect (not absolutely necessary - some people "role-play" themselves in a fantasy, or perhaps science fictional or even historical environment, and it also emphasizes a system, whereas there are forms of roleplaying which are freeform.
In the broadest sense, "keldraci" should cover it, with several of the places of that lujvo handling some of the key related concepts (like "gamer" x5 of draci, gamemaster x3 of draci, etc.) 


Next, I need something for "heroic fantasy". Unfortunately, there are
*lots* of meanings hidden behind these two english words, which thus
frightened me and caused me to get stuck in the process of translating
them. If anyone with better analysis skills than I have could help me
with tackling this, I'd be very glad.
What makes heroic fantasy heroic is not the heroes, but the grand scale of the conflicts, epic nature of the stories, and often the cataclysmic stakes to the world. Again, I would keep it simple and use "rambalfi'a" for a broad concept that may be a little too broad, and add in modifiers to indicate some particular kind of heroic fantasy. If you think that it does need "heroes", make that "rambalprefi'a". 


Next, I am speaking about "a set of phonemic signs". I was thinking about
   lo'i selmorna be lo sance lerfu bo selzbasu
however I'm not sure about it. Any comments ?


A phoneme to me would be a snajmika'u, and you are talking about the x2 of
snajmika'u le'ucmi


Now, if I want to speak about "language requirements" in the sense of
"what they impose on their writing system to be easily used by their
speakers", is it acceptable to use
   le ciska stura selnitcu be le bangu
? (I mean, can a "bangu" actually "nitcu" anything ?)
Not "need", but it can make things necessary (sarcu), but the language itself would be a sumti-raised place from the abstraction that actually requires it. 


I also want to have a discursive
    ko'a ",incidentally along with A,B,C," cu broda
I feel I should use a combination of "noi", "ce" or "le'i", but I just
cannot figure out how, nor can see where this is covered in the Book.
Depends on what you mean by incidentally here. noi is used to subordinate a second selbri which is incidental to the main selbri, but the English word "incidentally" is usually not used to indicate such an incidental claim. Likely it is important that people know that A,B,C also broda, and you are perhaps indicating that this is true, but that it was accidental, unplanned, merely convenient to the story that they happened to do so.
This is a stylistic question, but I would be inclined to use two separate sentences. ko'a broda .iji'a A je B je C go'i
Now if "with" (accompanying) is to be taken more literally, this could change the method, though it could merely be ".iji'aviku in the above sentence. You might on the other hand need to make kansa the main selbri or put it in a noi clause 


And finally, I'd like a clarification of what can fill the places of "for
purpose X", "under conditions/circumstances Y" and most especially "by
standard Z" in gismu place structures.
These will usually either be abstractions, or more often metonynmy for some unspecified abstraction. Purpose relates to mukti/zukte, why some agent is doing something. Conditions are the restrictive circumstances under which you wish to claim the selbri true (sarcu); a standard (manri) is usually either a scale (ckilu) or some basis of comparison (zmadu, mleca) or a set of prototypes (described as a set or enumerated), but you can also just say "tu'a mi" (by my standard) leaving it totally unspecified just what that standard actually is. 


I believe (but am not sure) that "le" events suit the Y use:
    "it is easy for you to use letters when it comes to writing"
    le nu pilno le'i lerfu cu frili do le nu ciska

and that "lo" or "le" events suit the X use:
    "you use letters for writing purposes"
    do pilno le'i lerfu lo nu ciska
I'm not sure what you are saying here - I can see le or lo in either sentence, though I would use "loi nu" based on your English in each case. A purpose might be specific or it might be general, and the place structure does not specify just how broad your goal must be: (I eat in order to stop my hunger. I eat in order to fill my stomach. I eat in order to meet my body's nutritional needs. I eat in order to stay alive. I eat in order to maintain my genes' competitiveness in long term natural selection. are probably all true at once, but the ones(s) that are in your mental state are the ones you will typically use for a "goal or purpose" 


but I just cannot figure out what can stand in a "by standard" place.
You are a skilled Lojbanist by standard (having read the book and being able to construct grammatical and understandable text). You are a skilled Lojbanist by standard (better than Pierre) [not making any actual judgements here %^)] You are a skilled Lojbanist by standard (the official scale of Lojban proficiency that LLG has never issued) You are a skilled Lojbanist by standard ({Jorge, Helsem, ---, ---, rock} are a descending scale) 
You are a skilled Lojbanist by standard (the typical poster to Lojban List)
(note this one is vague - I could be comparing you to the typical poster, or I could be saying that the typical poster would judge you skilled - this is always a consideration in sumti raising) 

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