[Fictionary] How widespread is "twiddler"?

Hutch hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com
Sat Mar 9 15:00:58 EST 2013


As far as I can recall, I've never heard of them before.

BTW, I found it hard to determine what a "twiddler" was supposed to be
until I went hunting around that site: try looking at
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/t.html for a little better
description of what they are.

And some of the sentences on the example URL (Pierre's link) seem to
fit into the description of the exceptions on the description URL
(mine). IOW, some of the examples on that page seem NOT to be
twiddlers, by the creator's own definition.

BB,
Hutch

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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma at bezitopo.org> wrote:
> Some weeks ago a discussion was going on on the Lojban list, and I called some
> sentence a twiddler and pointed them to
> http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/twiddlers.html . I just saw someone on
> #lojban IRC say "mi kakne lo nu do citka" ("I can that you eat" - makes more
> grammatical sense in Greek, "μπορώ να φαγεις") and call it a twiddler. How
> well-known is the term "twiddler" for such sentences?
>
> Pierre
> --
> sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera


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