[lojban] Re: gratuitous use of kem, was Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Friday 04 January 2008 03:33, mungojelly@ixkey.info wrote:
> In fact, I'm thinking, you can throw a "kem" on the beginning of any
> lujvo and leave it with the same meaning, huh?  Or you could open up a
> bunch of parens like "kemkemkemkemkemcusku" and then they just get
> magically closed after the "cusku" and do nothing, right?

You could use "kem" or "kep" to make jargon words or cadigans. Say you have a 
file format which has blocks and chunks; you could call them "kembli" 
and "grike'e" or the like. Or you can use words like "kemdza" 
and "borbo'ekepcomdai" for "whatchamacallit" and "doohickey".

phma


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