[lojban] Snark hunting (was Re: Lojban Wiktionary closure proposal.)

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Jun 17, 2012, at 12:10, Escape Landsome wrote:

> but is there a way I can create a lojban word that means "the hunting
> of a snark"
> 
> without precising if it is "the fact I hunt a snark", or the fact a
> snark hunts me ?


(For the rest of this message, assume we have previously defined {broda} to be "x1 is a snark", as with {cei}.)

A selbri for "x1 is the event of hunting involving a snark" is:

  nu broda kalte

We can choose to smash that into a lujvo as:

  nunrodykalte

It would, however, be poor form to define such a lujvo without being more specific about the role of the snark, and including specific x2 and x3 places describing the event in more detail.

There is nothing wrong with using "nu broda kalte" to be vague; there is nothing wrong with having a *selbri for something* rather than a *word for something*, until you really have to say it a lot. And if your concept is frequent in your document, you can say

  .i nu broda kalte kei cei brode

and now you can use {brode} for "the hunting of a snark" all you like for the rest of your text.

-- 
Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>

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