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From the Lojban web site FAQ (http://www.lojban.org/files/brochures/faq.htm):
''Dr. James Cooke Brown'', ''JCB'' is the founder of the [[Loglan|Loglan]] project, from which Lojban is an offshoot. The head of [[The Loglan Institute|The Loglan Institute]].


'''fu'ivla''': borrowed word ''(literally, "copy word")''
Unfortunately, he didn't approve of Lojban, but we are allowed (so says the court) to call Lojban "Loglan" anyhow.


Formerly called ''le'avla'', a more literal [[jbocre: calque|calque]] of 'loan word'.
In his [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/message/1988 obituary] he talked a lot about Lojban/Loglan reunification.


The shift from ''le'avla'' to ''fu'ivla'' may have come from Colin Fine; see [http://balance.wiw.org/~jkominek/lojban/9305/msg00075.html], where he announces that he wants to start using ''fu'ivla'' instead of ''le'avla''. (At that time, there appears to have been a little discussion as to whether ''fu'ivla'' was a better word for the concept; see the couple of messages starting at [http://balance.wiw.org/~jkominek/lojban/9305/threads.html#00076].) ''--pne''
He died in 2000.


There are four ways to borrow a word into Lojban, with increasing degree of integration:
[[User:Alex Leith|Alex Leith]] succeeded him as the head of [[The Loglan Institute|The Loglan Institute]].


;[[jbocre: Type 1 fu'ivla]]: ''me la'o gy.'' + word in original spelling + ''gy.''; e.g. ''me la'o gy. Phascolarctos gy.'' *How is it ''gy.''? It's not an English word, shouldn't it be ly. for Linnean, since that's the kind of name it is?''Officially, the choice of word is quite arbitrary. People get used to gy, and forget it's gy for glico.'' Is that explained in any of the current learning materials?
==pe JCB==
 
* [[xorxes]]:
;[[jbocre: Type 2 fu'ivla]]: ''me la'' + Lojbanised [[jbocre: cmene|cmene]]; e.g. ''me la faskolerktos.''''OK for noun-like brivla, but less fitting for verb-like brivla, which might have other places.  Granted, noun-like ones are much more common.  Still, even something like '''cmacrnintegrali''' ("integral" in the calculus sense) is likely to have a place structure like "x1 is the integral of x2 with respect to variable x3" or some such.  How these other places are to be intuited for Type 3&4 fu'ivla I don't know, but since '''me''' only has one place (does it?) it wouldn't work for these Types 1&2. --mi'e mark -- Oops.  And already said this below.''
** pe JCB
 
** coi doi loglo je lojbo xo'a Ga gutra ga lepo la Jimbraon morcea vi lemi gunti. I mi Jai na noba vizka jmite. Ibuo miu lerbatmi la Loglan cao veu la Loglan. I mi mutce clika le to lengu jio Jai farfu lei. Ihoa su'oroiku la jycybyb skicu la lojban fo le jy flapro tixnu i jy se pluka le nu le re bangu cu banro i ku'i li'a jy zmanei le flalu panzi i jy banli je prije prenu co'o mi'e xorxes xo'a Hue Xorxes
;[[jbocre: Type 3 fu'ivla]]: [[jbocre: gismu|gismu]] + buffer consonant(s) + Lojbanised word; e.g. ''mabrnfaskolarkto''
* mi te cpedu le nu fanva le pamoi xadba le lojbo i mi fanva fu lu cizra fa le nu la jimbraun mrobi'o bu'u le mi gugde i mi jy noroi selvi'a rinsa iku'i mi'a xa'arcajysi'u la loglan bau la loglan i mi mutce nelci le re bangu poi jy patfu ke'a li'u
 
* xa'arcajysi'u: x1 simxu le ka ce'uxipa ce'uxire canja lo'e xatra be ce'uxipa bei ce'uxire bei x2 lo'e catra be ce'uxire bei ce'uxipa bei x2
;[[jbocre: Type 4 fu'ivla]]: Lojbanised word, with clusters to guarantee it will not fall apart morphologically; e.g. ''fasxo larto''
* maikl:
 
** la jycybyb. i mi cabdei ciksne .i lebi'u toldi la jbotut. ca'a cnino leka zvati .i fagri tutra noryru'i ka'u .i vofli file tsani co skari befo noda poi na'e vizyzva .i banzu mi'e maikl.
[[jbocre: The Book|The Book]] indicates that the canonical form of fu'ivla morphologically is Type 3, with four-letter [[jbocre: rafsi|rafsi]] prefixes.
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* Four-letter prefixes are recommended only because if you use a three-letter prefix and don't check for a consonant cluster, you might end up making a non-fu'ivla. With tools like [[jbocre: vlatai|vlatai]] at our disposal, we shouldn't be afraid of 3-letter rafsi prefixes, which can sometimes give nicer, less "crunchy" words (''djarspageti'', for example, is much nicer than ''cidjrspageti''). --[[jbocre: rab.spir|rab.spir]]
* Generic ideological objections: (1) the 4-letter version is completely predictable, the 3-letter isn't; (2) I won't be running vlatai in face-to-face interaction; (3) of course fu'ivla should be crunchy -- how else will I realise immediately they aren't lujvo? -- [[User:Nick Nicholas|nitcion]].
 
* 3-letter rafsi fu'ivla are valid type 3 only if the rafsi is of CVC form.  At least that's what vlatai thinks. --phma
** My copy of vlatai parses ''djarspageti'' just fine. --[[jbocre: rab.spir|rab.spir]]
 
** Do make sure you're using the absolutely latest vlatai. It was a target of many bug fixes in 0.37
 
No convention exists for what vowel to choose as the final vowel of a loan word, if it ends in a consonant in the source language, and that language's morphology does not suggest a suitable final vowel (unlike the case for [[Borrowing words from Graeco-L|Latin]].) [[User:Nick Nicholas|Nick Nicholas]] proposes in the [http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less12fuhivla.html essons] that the final vowel simply be repeated; e.g. Mamluke - ''mamluk'' - ''prenrmamluk'''u''''' .
 
''Another (previous?) proposal was that the final vowel of the gismu used as prefix be used:'' pren-r-mamluk-u ''(in this case happily both conventions agree)''
 
Counterexample: zgik'''e''' + r'''o'''k -> zgikrnrok'''o''' vs. zgikrnrok'''e''' .
 
* I think you've added an extra hyphen to ''zgiknroko'' and ''zgiknroke''. I've never heard of nrock music.
 
The advantage the former proposal has is that it is also usable for Type 4 fu'ivla, whereas the latter is only usable for Type 3.
 
----
 
Another variant on Method 1 is ''(me) la'e zoi gy. Phascolarctos gy.''
 
Methods 1 & 2 are also less integrated syntactically since (I (=And) think) ''me'' has only an x1. Hence they won't work for fuhivla that need to be polyadic. ''The [[jbocre: ma'oste|ma'oste]] I have says ''"convert sumti to selbri/tanru element; x1 is specific to [[jbocre: sumti|sumti]] in aspect x2"'', which looks like two places to me. On the other hand, that's still not a lot. --pne''

Latest revision as of 13:30, 29 August 2014

Dr. James Cooke Brown, JCB is the founder of the Loglan project, from which Lojban is an offshoot. The head of The Loglan Institute.

Unfortunately, he didn't approve of Lojban, but we are allowed (so says the court) to call Lojban "Loglan" anyhow.

In his obituary he talked a lot about Lojban/Loglan reunification.

He died in 2000.

Alex Leith succeeded him as the head of The Loglan Institute.

pe JCB

  • xorxes:
    • pe JCB
    • coi doi loglo je lojbo xo'a Ga gutra ga lepo la Jimbraon morcea vi lemi gunti. I mi Jai na noba vizka jmite. Ibuo miu lerbatmi la Loglan cao veu la Loglan. I mi mutce clika le to lengu jio Jai farfu lei. Ihoa su'oroiku la jycybyb skicu la lojban fo le jy flapro tixnu i jy se pluka le nu le re bangu cu banro i ku'i li'a jy zmanei le flalu panzi i jy banli je prije prenu co'o mi'e xorxes xo'a Hue Xorxes
  • mi te cpedu le nu fanva le pamoi xadba le lojbo i mi fanva fu lu cizra fa le nu la jimbraun mrobi'o bu'u le mi gugde i mi jy noroi selvi'a rinsa iku'i mi'a xa'arcajysi'u la loglan bau la loglan i mi mutce nelci le re bangu poi jy patfu ke'a li'u
  • xa'arcajysi'u: x1 simxu le ka ce'uxipa ce'uxire canja lo'e xatra be ce'uxipa bei ce'uxire bei x2 lo'e catra be ce'uxire bei ce'uxipa bei x2
  • maikl:
    • la jycybyb. i mi cabdei ciksne .i lebi'u toldi la jbotut. ca'a cnino leka zvati .i fagri tutra noryru'i ka'u .i vofli file tsani co skari befo noda poi na'e vizyzva .i banzu mi'e maikl.
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