On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
It seems to me that we should make fu'ivla, at least sometimes, the
way English does: by contracting annoyingly long compound words.
Example: "cellphone", which is its own word short for "cellular
telephone" (at least), which are themselves compounds if I'm not
mistaken. It seems to me that we could do something similar, by
creating the crazy-long jvajvo word and then, if it's popular,
ripping parts out in such a way as to create a *fu'ivla* rather than
a less-jva-jvo
Just a thought.
-Robin
--
They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org
with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if
you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.