[lojban] Re: Projects

[Philip Newton <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:23:51 -0000, reverendzow <reverendzow@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ah, but that's not what I meant about using radicals.  Any word which
> can be used directly in forming lujvo would -be- a radical;
> therefore, any single character which was composed of such radicals
> would be a lujvo or {X zei Y}.

Ah! That would, of course, entail having over 1400 radicals, and some
possibly quite complex characters (since there's no limit to the
number of components to a lujvo - you could have a lujvo with, say,
eight components if you wanted).

> Also, a lujvo-forming radical could be used instead of a "this is any
> one of my rafsi" radical, to indicate "the following and I are part
> of one lujvo."

That would work.

> {valsi zei lerfu} (vlaler, vlale'u, or what?)

vlale'u. Other possiblities include valyle'u. Remember that brivla
have to end in a vowel, so vlaler is right out. (Though vlaler- is
fine as part of a longer lujvo, e.g. vlalersni for valsi + lerfu +
sinxa.)

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>