From cowan@xxxx.xxxx Mon Nov 1 10:31:30 1999 X-Digest-Num: 273 Message-ID: <44114.273.1524.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 13:31:30 -0500 From: John Cowan Given a gismu you've never seen, should you > be able to tell the rafsi? Sort of. For each gismu, there are at most seven possible rafsi for it, of which zero, one, two, or (in rare cases) three are actually assigned to it. Furthermore, if you know the rafsi for some phonetically similar gismu, you can often rule out many or all of the possibilities, because you already know that those rafsi are assigned to other gismu. But just looking at a gismu and knowing the rafsi, no. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies / Schliess eurer Aug vor heiliger Schau Den er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)