RE: [lojban] Re: tags

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la kreig cusku di'e

> "lobykai" is a lujvo, so its meaning is what the community makes it. The
> community has made it a subset of lojbo, but the use of lobykai is rathe
> more specific; it reflects a sense of elegance about the way something is
> expressed, often by cutting out unnecessary locutions from the literal
> translation of an English text.

I prefer {lobza'a} for that meaning, but it is true that {lobykai}
has seen some usage with that sense (often in English text, though).

> If lobykai were the same as lojbo, then 'kai' would be meaningless.

I do think -kai is fairly meaningless as a suffix. Perhaps that will
make it acquire a sense like "in the characteristic style of..." or
something like that. Something like English "-ish".

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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