Re: [lojban] Summary: Cultural fu'ivla

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/31 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>>
>> If the transformation ISO -> fu'ivla is not univocal and preferrably
>> reversible, it loses most of its appeal, at least for me.
>
> Fair enough, although it would actually be imposible to do it this way,
> since at least some of the lang codes have illegal clusters, or no vowels at
> all.  Some of them will have to be tweaked to fit.

I wouldn't say it's impossible. You could have as the rule something
like code xyz becomes fu'ivla xaybzc, where a, b, and c are functions
of x, y, z such that xaybzc always results in a valid fu'ivla. The
problem is that the result would usually be hardly anything
recognizable.

> I was trying to keep the CCV'VCV structure for all of them....

Even more restrictive.

>> > Assamese (অসমীয়া) sma'ine (asm/ine)
>> > Belarusian (Беларуская) ble'ine (bel/ine)
>> > Breton (brezhoneg) bre'ine (bre/ine)
>> > Chechen (нохчийн мотт) tce'acu (che/cau)
>>
>> OK, don't let me stop you. :)
>
> Well, it's fun and all,

Was your list picked randomly, or were the examples hand-picked so
that they would convert easily into a fu'ivla? If the former, you may
have something, if the latter, the method has not really been tested.

> but I'm not terrible interested in doing all of this
> if people don't think it's worthwhile/won't be using it.  I have much
> better, productive things to spend my time on.

I guess it's your call. I doubt people can commit to liking the result
before seeing it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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