Re: [lojban] Easy Lujvo

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also "tol-" is pretty common by itself, as are "nal-" and "nor-".
>
> yes but they would just expand to their standard interpretaiion, right?

... isn't that the whole idea?

> I'm not sure I understand your point here. Given that a lujvo, after
> all, can be given the desired meaning, how would be ficybroda
> different from brodyficra? I would prefer short rafsi where possible.

I would say that a rodyfrica would usually be different from a broda
somehow, and a ficybo'e would be a brode that differs from something
else somehow.  But I'm not sure either of those are common/standard
enough for a filjvo list.

>> I don't remember seeing "-bra" or "-cma" added to arbitrary gismu, except
>> in "plisycma", which was a joke. Usually they're prefixes.
> I still prefer the suffix form, though. Could you elaborate on why the
> prefix should be better?

The prefix form is used with bra- and cma- because the bigness or
smallness of the thing is just an incidental quality.  The most
essential thing you want to express about it is that it's whatever
type of object.  So we'd say {braxanto} to make it clear we're talking
about an elephant, while also saying that it's a big one.  If we said
{xantybra} that could also mean "something as big as an elephant" or
"a big thing that elephants like" or whatever.

mi'e la stela selckiku
mu'o

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