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Re: [lojban] Contesting a lujvo

Optimistic, but unlikely.  Under your solution, {ri'orcinki} would mean effectively the same thing as {crino cinki}, leaving the two parties with words longer by a syllable.  If the dye-ers were willing to go with a longer lujvo, the contest probably wouldn't have happened in the first place.

As another example, currently {sampla} refers to the relationship "some programmer writing a computer program that does something".

But come the singularity, {skami platu} may be used more frequently to refer to plans made by a computer, not for a computer; the meaning of the lujvo {sampla} might become increasingly archaic, and there may be a push to adopt the meaning "some computer wrote some plan/design to do something".

Lojban, being a prescribed language, would require the BPFK to decide what the meaning was, but what factors would influence its decision?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:33 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 April 2011 10:01, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say that, in lojbanistan, {ri'orcinki} refers to a particular species
> of insects, notable for their green color. Now, let's imagine the dyeing
> industry discovering that another insect, not particularly notable in
> appearance, effectively produces a green dye when properly treated. How
> would the dyeing industry contest the meaning of {ri'orcinki}, if it should
> so choose?

One possible scenario is that each party create a sufficiently
specific and distinct lujvo for their own use -- such as
{ri'orpilcinki} and {ri'opracinki} -- and then agree to expand the
meaning of {ri'orcinki} -- such as "an insect that has to do with
green color" -- so as to make it a hypernym to the new lujvos. If then
{ri'orcinki} was unserviceably generic and vague, it would naturally
fall out of use.


mu'o

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