Re: [lojban] Question about "dictionary\words"?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 07 January 2012 14:51:28 buroq_mat@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Dear colleagues, I ask you about Lojban language if it has been
> completed, is there compound words or pseudonyms will be added to the
> dictionary or false? is there something incomplete in lojban now?

Is any human language *ever* completed? There are lots of concepts for which 
we don't have words yet, and sometimes the discussion of what to call them 
produces no conclusion. Here's one: a week or two ago, on the way to church, 
I saw a sun dog and explained to the guy I was riding with how a "parhelio" 
happens; he had apparently never heard this word before. (Neither had I, at 
least in Spanish. I've read about them in English.) I don't know what to call 
them in Lojban. Not "solge'u"; that is malgli (or malbro - they're 
called "kalbey hashemesh"), as it is not any kind of mammal, does not bark, 
is not carnivorous, etc.

If you'd like to contribute words to Lojban, please sign up on the jbovlaste 
website. You'll also be added to the jbovlaste mailing list, which is where 
discussions of new words happen.

Pierre

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La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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