[lojban] Re: bogjinme gi'i jimbo'u?

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > > What word could you have deciphered as "flouride"?
> >
> > "li'orklirysilna", apparently.
> >
> > > (Does your question have a legitimate answer?)
> >
> > I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to ask or imply
> > here.
> 
> It seemed that you had wished Pierre used a lujvo which was
> decomposable into "flouride".

Oh, no!  By all the powers, no!  Although I can completely
understand why you'd expect that from past behaviour.

I actually would expect elements to be fu'ivla; they seem to be an
obvious place for them.  Or possibly lujvo based on atomic weight.

But if one was to make a lujvo that semantically represented an
element, I wouldn't have any expectation whatsoever of understanding
it, because my chemistry isn't good enough.  While I don't always
like they way Pierre creates words, I do trust his domain knowledge
enough to expect that 'light type-of chlorine' would not be
incomprehensible to a chemist as flourine, and that silna has at
least something to do with ionization, conceptually.

If not, then shame on Pierre, but I'd be surprised.

Anyways, as I said, I merely wanted it documented, not
comprehensible from lujvo breakdown.

I have, in fact, largely given up on the idea of understanding
non-trivial words solely from their breakdown, in most cases.
Although having them appear in a rich, nontrivial conversation makes
it much easier.

-Robin

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