Re: [lojban] Expressing Lojban concepts in Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 03:53:41 Wuzzy wrote:
> Hi, it’s Wuzzy again. In my Lojban studies I encountered there are a lot
> of Lojban concepts not expressed by any brivla. Especially the CLL
> introduces a lot of concepts which are specifict to Lojban only, yet
> Lojban has no brivla for them yet. The English words that lack a Lojban
> brivla are, in no particular order:
> 
>  * “letteral”/“letter” (“letteral” here means “word that represents a
> letter”, for Lojban that is “abu”, “by”, etc. For the sake of
> simplicity, this definition does not exclude compound words like “abu”
> = “a bu”. And “letter” is the usual English meaning . Now the annoying
> thing is, it seems to me that lojbanists seem to currently use “lerfu”
> to mean “letter” and “letteral” exchangingly. This needs to change
> quickly.),

zo by. lervla .i me'o by. lerfu

>  * “diphtong”,

relkarsna

>  * “vowel pair” (the lojban vowel pairs of the form “V'V” like “a'a”,
> “a'e”, and so on.),

karsna remei

>  * “vowel” (in the lojbanic sense, can be either spoken or written)
> (“vowel” in the sense of “sound” is “karsna”),
>  * “consonant” (in the lojbanic sense, can be either spoken or written)
> (“consonant” in the sense of “sound” is “zunsna”),
>  * “consonant cluster”,

zunsna so'umei

>  * “consonant pair”,

zunsna remei

>  * “consonant triple”,

zunsna cimei

>  * “initial consonant pair” (CLL, 3.7),

krasi ke zunsna remei

>  * “buffer” (CLL, 3.8),

selse'a nutsna, or just selse'asna. The proper term in English is 
"epenthetic".

>  * “stress” (CLL, 3.9),
>  * “hyphen” (extra letter to build words [Lojban-specific]),

binrafsi (or binzilrafsi to emphasize that it doesn't mean anything). interfix.

>  * “lojbanic letter” (letter that is part of Lojban’s alphabet),
>  * “stage <n> fu'ivla” where “<n>” is one of: “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”,

pamoi klesi fu'ivla ce'o co'e

>  * “delimeter” (in the sense of “valsi that delimetes a ‘zoi’
> quoted string”),

jityvla

Pierre
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