Re: Posterity Badness.

["hfroark" <hfroark@bigmailbox.net>]

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@l...> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:12:52AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > 
> > --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@d...> wrote:
> > > 'angeli'.
> > > 
> > > Other than that, no idea.  Having seen the word 'angeli', I
> > > simply assumed that it was written by a very poor Lojbanist, 
and
> > > didn't read the rest.  I'm rather surprised to find out I was
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > That's an odd reaction. {angeli} is a valid fu'ivla, it is the
> > type of culturally specific word that fu'ivla were meant for, and
> > on top of that it has seen some usage other than in this piece. I
> > remembered having read this passage on the list before, though I
> > didn't remember it was from tsali.
> 
> <shrug>  I don't like type-4.  I *especially* don't like type-4 
when
> the concept is trivially expressible with a lujvo (in this case
> cesru'i or cesycrida, take your pick).
> 
> And I had no idea it was valid.  My internal Lojban recognizer
> screamed at the sight of it (a comment Bob has also often made), 
and
> cmafihe choked on it.

Actually, I think that there is a problem. If I am not missing a 
point, Lojban words inculding type-4 fu'ivla have to begin with a 
consonant or (mandatory) pause. So, "angeli" should be ".angeli", or
the other changes including "xangeli" would also work.

mu'o mi'e. rork.