pudlu'avalsi'ipo'ato

valsi

pudlu'avalsi'ipo'ato

type

fu'ivla

creator

Xabju

time entered

Sun Jul 27 05:23:38 2025  

English

Definition #74156 - Preferred

 

definition

x₁ is a garden-path word meaning/causing x₂ in language x₃.

notes

This is a morphologically well-formed word which parses one way right up until the end, at which point it parses another way. The listener or reader of the word realizes after hearing/seeing it that they have been "led down a garden path" (an English idiom meaning something like "to be bamboozled"). There is a corresponding term in linguistics: a "garden-path sentence." Lojban is unusual in having the ability to form garden-path *words* as well as sentences. This word itself is an example. It parses as a lujvo (compound) of purdi 'garden' + pluta 'path' + valsi 'word' + sicni 'coin' + spoja 'explosion' up until about the last syllable. At that point, it ceases to parse as a lujvo and becomes a fu'ivla with a meaning that is totally unclear. See also pudlu'avalsipatlu.

jargon type

jboske

gloss words

• garden path word
• garden-path word

place keywords

1.

         garden-path word

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         meaning

3.

         language

created by

Xabju

vote information

2

time

Sun Jul 27 05:32:14 2025

Examples

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