From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sat Dec 07 08:15:37 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 7 Dec 2002 16:15:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 91545 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2002 16:15:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Dec 2002 16:15:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2002 16:15:37 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01373; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212071627.LAA01373@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:15:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: cmegadri valfendi preti To: lojbab@lojban.org (Robert LeChevalier) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:15:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021206223513.03a4fec0@pop.east.cox.net> from "Robert LeChevalier" at Dec 06, 2002 10:45:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Robert LeChevalier scripsit: > fu'ivla, especially Type IVs, however, are irregular, and thus there are > few aural patterns that distinguish them. I haven't heard spoken Lojban > with a lot of fu'ivla in them, but I suspect that with fluent speech they > will be the hardest to identify. I would actually like to see the byfy nail down the definition of Type 4s, saying "They take these forms and no others" rather than the current negative definition: "They take whatever forms are left after gismu/ cmavo compounds/lujvo/Type 3s/rafsi fu'ivla have been removed." -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part www.ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that www.reutershealth.com cooks with butter. -- David Chessler jcowan@reutershealth.com