[lojban] Re: ki'a

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 11/19/06, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> Yanis Batura wrote:
>
> > {pinpedi} is a stage 4 fu'ivla, like {djirafa}, {alga}, {caxmati} etc.
>
> And is an example of why I am opposed to inventing stage 4 fu'ivla at
> this point in the language evolution - as we can see, no one has any
> idea what it means.

I suppose that "no one" is meant as hyperbole, but anyway, I can
immediately think of five people who did have an idea:
Pierre, who coined the fu'ivla
timos, who used it,
Adam and Yanis, who at least knew to look for it in jbovlaste,
and myself, who had used it at least twice, in
<http://www.lojban.org/texts/translations/alice/alice_10.html>
and in <http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/odbenu>, and now it can
also be found in <http://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/pinpedi>

> A fu'ivla should remain a Type III - marked by a
> semantic-hint rafsi - until its usage is so common that usage (and/or
> Zipf's law) indicates a need for a shorter form.  I don't think that any
> fu'ivla has received such usage.

pe'i lo cimoi klesi fu'ivla cu mablrmonstrositi gi'e rirci lo ka mi zmanei
ke'a lo vomoi klesi

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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