Re: [lojban] Re: Named multiples

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

<<> That aside, my point is that we create fu'ivla of exceptionally long
> lujvo in an effort to keep them short. It's like the 
lojbanic version
> of abbreviating things.

That's really 
not done much at all (I first heard of it a few months ago), but
it 
is a somewhat nifty approach.>>

Have y'all forgotten Zipf's law, which, while not prescriptive, is certainly predictive?  If you don't like this trick, try another, but someone is going to do the cutting sometime for sure (assuming the language lives).



      

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