Re: Use fu'ivla more (was Re: [lojban] Supporting Lojbanic babies.)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:48:06AM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Oh, not at all; type-4 are very easy.  You can usually make one
> > by starting with a lujvo and lopping off a letter or two in the
> > middle somewhere, for example.
> >
> > Anything with a consonant cluster in the first 5 letters, that
> > ends in vowel, and isn't a gismu or lujvo, is valid.  That's a
> > *big* space, and much of it is extremely easy to pronounce.
> >
> 
> Wait, does that exclude 5 letter words?  i.e. if I saw "gratu" I
> would assume that it was a gismu but technically it meets your
> criteria.

That's a gismu, it just happens to not be defined.  We're talking
about word-shape here, not semantics.  And yeah, I oversimplified a
lot. :)

-Robin

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