Re: [lojban] fu'ivla's definition: loanword or morphological class

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 14:47:24 symuyn wrote:
> There have been some discussions on the IRC room about {fu'ivla} and
> its proper definition.
>
> People currently use {fu'ivla} to refer to: A. general loanwords
> between any two languages or B. the Lojban morphological class of
> brivla. These are definitely two different concepts, though they
> happen to overlap a lot in Lojban.
>
> The question is: which definition should {fu'ivla} be defined to have?

I think it should mean a loanword, and suggest "fu'irvlaseltai" to refer to 
something in the Lojban morphological class. If I say "fu'ivla" in English, 
though, I mean the morphological class.

zo vonpaso mu'a fu'irvlaseltai jenai fu'ivla

Pierre
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