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

[Warrigal <ihope127+w@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM, symuyn <rbysamppi@gmail.com> 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?

Much like the English word "salsa" (which means a specific
Spanish-related type of sauce, whereas the Spanish word "salsa" simply
means "sauce"), the Lojban word {fu'ivla} should mean "loanword",
whereas the English word "fu'ivla" should mean "member of the Lojban
morphological class of brivla designed to accomodate loanwords".

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