Re: blanu blari'o

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@quetzal.com>]

>I found a discrepancy between this two texts.
>In the first is listed the gismu {blanu} (blue) (Also I found it in the
>official gismu list), but in the second text, other gismu is given for
>the same idea {blari'o}.

I don't have the second text handy, but "blanu" means blue, "crino" means
green, and "blari'o" is a compound of the two, meaning "blue-green".  If the
other text says it means blue it's mistaken.

>I understand that in lojban there is only ONE gismu for one idea.

It seems like there is some overlap between gismu.  I don't think that's
true of colors particularly, but some of the words for more abstract things,
like jalge, rinka, etc. sometimes overlap in my opinion.

>Is {blari'o} a non-official gismu?.

{blari'o} is not a gismu but a "lujvo", i.e. a compound word, made up of
"bla", short for "blanu", and "ri'o", short for "crino".