[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

[Arran <arran4@gmail.com>]

IMHO valsi referring to other cultures, geography, ect should be fu'ivla with rafsi. (If there can be such a thing.) What disappoints me is the lack of taxonomy for plants and animals is the gismu..

(Warning, offtopic, idiosyntratic, potentially not ver well thought out part) I have seriously wondered if there should be junk gismu/rafsi which only have meaning in combination with other words, ie for xruba, (not a good example, but I have some of this growing in my garden) you (can) have xunre stani xruba, but wouldn't it be interesting to have hrexub where hre is a some fictional rasfi which is almost predicate in meaning.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:51 AM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:

In a message dated 9/24/2009 10:32:10 Eastern Daylight Time, mturniansky@gmail.com writes:

I noticed that no one else mentioned another distinguishing feature of gismu -- the way they are derived (from a weighted survey of the 6 source natlangs).

     --gejyspa

That's how most were derived.  The remaining gismu fall into several categories: uniquely Lojban concepts (e.g., "gismu"), metric prefixes ("decti", "kilto"), basic metric and math units ("xampo", "tanjo"), the six Lojban source languages ("jungo", "glico"), some other languages and geographical or cultural gismu ("bengo", "merko"), and the religion gismu. (CLL, 4.15)

mu'o mi'e stevon