Re: [lojban] Lujvo coinage in a hypothetical Lojbanistan

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

I don't know how well the English analogy works, because English is not really built for new words to be regularly introduced. (I learned "nitpick" from use, true, but it's also a "standard" word; it already had many users when I was born, as did almost every other word in my lexicon.) I agree, though, that context helps, and I agree that it should be possible to define new lujvo in pure Lojban. I guess this refines my question a little bit: must lujvo be definable in pure Lojban? Not necessarily only with the gismu that are used to construct them, but in some other pure Lojban?

mu'o mi'e latros.

2010/10/29 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> How would you
> introduce your new concept to other Lojbanists in Lojban if it is indeed a
> new concept to the language?

In the same way you do it in English, by using the new word in an
appropriate context.

> I know that, for example, I recently coined {fazycmadau}. When trying to
> explain to selckiku what I meant, I had to resort to saying that it {simsa
> zo'oi nitpick} (the rest of the conversation was in Lojban). Suffice it to
> say that he responded with {.ua}.

You could have explained it in lojban, "darlu .ije lo nu darlu cu
fanza ki'u lo nu srana lo cmalu tcila" or whatever you had in mind.

But how did you learn what "nitpick" means in English? You just heard
it used in the right contexts often enough.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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