Re: [lojban] Re: Let's create a word: Wasabi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Friday, November 21, 2014 15:29:14 la .gusek. wrote:
> Okay, again maybe I should rethink. Any idea why "vlatai" wasn't programmed
> to take diphthongs into account this way?

Vlatai was written before there was a precise analysis of what a Lojban 
syllable is.

> Regarding your recommendation with a full stage-4, I don't agree with that
> line of thinking (but I get your point). Personally, I find it frustrating
> to see stage-4:s created directly and have trouble taking them "as
> seriously" as stage-3:s (I know I shouldn't react this way, but I do). I
> intuitively respect "sorpeka" much, much more (since it was created out of
> need and from an existing word), than stage-4:s with no pre-existing need
> and actual stage-3. I kind of want a stage-3 to exist before hand, and it's
> usage to *motivate* the creation of a stage-4. It feels like a "waste" of
> semantic space as well as unnecessary and risky behaviour (without
> guaranteeing syntactic non-decomposing).

I don't have any problem with creating stage-4's straight off. I do make 
stage-3's when the foreign part is too short (e.g. bakrto), doesn't fit well 
into stage-4 shape, or would be ambiguous between two very different things 
(e.g. rutrmalpigi, ragrmalpigi). "sorpeka" was shortened from a lujvo, not a 
stage-3.

I think that there should be a clear distinction between stage 3 and stage 4. 
Once I borrowed a word "turndun" (an Australian noisemaker, also called a 
bullroarer). At first I got "turndunu", but that is a stage-3 for some kind of 
structure, so I altered it to "turdunu".

Pierre
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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