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

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

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 04:49:22PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Ian Johnson
> <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally, it would be kinda nice if type 4s could have
> > rafsi, so that you could coin just a few basic jargon concepts
> > and then interrelate the others using lujvo. For example you
> > could have a lujvo of "integrated circuit" and a handful of
> > others and with a little more work you could coin a lot of the
> > jargon hardware terms as lujvo.
> 
> The PEG morphology gives rafsi to every fu'ivla.
> 
> In last place, the rafsi is just the full fu'ivla, as with gismu,
> except you need to preceed it with y-ending rafsi only (which is
> not a problem because every brivla has at least one of those). In
> non-last place, the rafsi is formed by adding 'y (apostrophe y) to
> the fu'ivla. They also can only be preceded by y-rafsi. If the
> fu'ivla starts with a vowel, the dot becomes an apostrophe when
> not in initial position.
> 
> (Some fu'ivla also have somewhat shorter rafsi, formed by
> replacing the last vowel with a y, but it is hard to precisely
> specify the class of fu'ivla that allow this. Basically as long as
> it can't be confused with an ordinary lujvo.)

Can you show me a few examples of use here?

-Robin

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