From cowan@ccil.org Wed Apr 23 12:12:09 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 23 Apr 2003 19:12:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 94482 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2003 19:12:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Apr 2003 19:12:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2003 19:12:09 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 198Pf2-0001Cy-00; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:12:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:12:04 -0400 To: Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llamb=EDas?= Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: mi'e Message-ID: <20030423191204.GH31255@ccil.org> References: <20030423165647.GC14253@ccil.org> <20030423181453.36557.qmail@web20509.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030423181453.36557.qmail@web20509.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > So for example {ba}, {ba'a}, {bra}, {bba} are all morphemes, > the last one can be pronounced /byba/. Morphemes that start > with a single consonant are cmavo and the rest are gismu. Such are the Gua\spi rules, exactly. > To distinguish tanru from lujvo all we would need is a separator > cmavo. With the above morphology, we could have {bragrku} > for {brage'u} and {brake grku} for {barda gerku}, for example. More or less what Gua\spi does also for its irregular (= not by rule) tanru/lujvo. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan O beautiful for patriot's dream that sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law! -- one of the verses not usually taught in U.S. schools