History: veljvo

Source of version: 2 (current)

The ''veljvo'' is the ''tanru'' which is turned into a ''lujvo'' (hopefully via the rules of ((seljvajvo))). Not every word in the ''veljvo'' needs to be represented by a ''rafsi'' in the ''lujvo''. A gismu which contributes no places to the place structure of the ''lujvo'', or a cmavo like ''ke'' or ''bo'' which is there to make the ''tanru'' correct, may be omitted if the resulting word isn't likely to be confused with something else. Sometimes even a SE word can be omitted, if the concept is important enough and any other arrangement of the places wouldn't make sense. This occurs, for example, in the word ''brivla''. ''I question this. Put all your cmavo and gismu in your lujvo, split it into a tanru, or use a more general concept. Whether a word is likely to be confused with something else is hard to tell without context, and may often be a cultural bias.-- ((Adam))'' This is the form I use when defining a new ((lujvo)): '''''lujvo''''': ''veljvo'': ''brief translation''''place structure'' ''Could you give us the ((Gismu Deep Structure)) too?'' The ''veljvo'' is written with omitted components in brackets or parentheses. The place structure uses abbreviations such as __c1__, using the first letter of the gismu the place comes from. If one place in the ''lujvo'' comes from multiple ''gismu'', the respective places are separated with =. An example (from the GNOME translation): __nermutmi'i__: nenri (ke) mucti minji: appletmi1=mu1=n1 is an applet for use mi2 running within program n2 Neither the lujvo list nor what there is so far of the dictionary server has any mechanism for showing omitted words in the ''veljvo''. It would be nice if they did, because trying to make lujvo without allowing for omitted components might cause one to give up on ((seljvajvo)) and just fudge the place structure. * ... or adjust the veljvo accordingly. -- nitcion. ** Which often leads to unwieldy lujvo. It's not like omitting lujvo components is anything new or revolutionary: ((the Book)) demonstrates it with ''sheepdog'' = ''lanme [[jitro] gerku'' = ''((lange'u))''. *** It is revolutionary. That is called an "anomalous lujvo" in ((the Book)). --((rab.spir)) **** "Anomalous" does not mean "bad". ''lange'u'' is a perfectly reasonable lujvo. **** Not necessarily ''bad'', but certainly ''non-((seljvajvo))''. ---- ((jbovlaste)) has a free-form-ish field for the components of a ((lujvo)) which is intended to contain a + separated list of the components of the ((lujvo)) in question. It is separate from the place mapping of the lujvo, which is intended to allow you to produce a list of all ((lujvo)) which have mluni2 mapped to their x3 place, for instance. The ''components'' field of ((jbovlaste)) could easily allow for ((lujvo)) to have some of their components bracketed to indicate they did not contribute rafsi to the final form. (FWIW, I've spent many a man-day wracking my brain over the design of ((jbovlaste)), just because you can't see it yet doesn't mean I don't support it. :) --((Jay Kominek|jay)) ''How about a way to enter the ((Gismu Deep Structure))? -- Adam''