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> Since this all about borrowings and only remotely
> about Lojban,

I consider morphological fu'ivla an integral part
of Lojban, but this is really beside the point.
What we need to decide is which wordforms will be
validated by the parser as forms quotable with {zo}.
Whether we call such forms Lojban-words, semi-Lojban-words,
remotely-Lojban-words or whatever else does not matter.

> I would say "if it occurs to be
> borrowed, then allow it in the borrowing. It is
> easier to just borrow something whole for that
> occasion of use than to go through some reductive
> process to make it Lojban (with native speakers
> of Lojban, of course, some reduction would be
> automatic, but then, they wouldn't need to do
> much borrowing).

Some reductive process will always be necessary in
any case. The Spanish word "pato" for example cannot
be borrowed without changes because in Lojban it breaks
as two words {pa to}.

If the word wins a pro0per
> place in Lojban, there will have been plenty of
> time to trim it down appropriately (if changes
> are really needed).

But trim it down to what forms? That's what we have to
define.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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