From philip.newton@gmail.com Tue Sep 21 00:41:22 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205] helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9fH8-0002v3-Ku for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:41:22 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so1496921rnk for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.79.75 with SMTP id c75mr1186666rnb; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.15.71 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537d06d00409210041474d93d6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:41:17 +0200 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: long(est) forms In-Reply-To: <159.3fc9c01d.2e80248b@wmconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <159.3fc9c01d.2e80248b@wmconnect.com> X-archive-position: 788 X-Approved-By: philip.newton@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners > If you like unambiguous forms, use the full form of the gismu and > separate them with "zei" ('lujvo glue'), which is for lujvo based on > words that don't have rafsi. > E.g., lojbau (Lojban + language) = lojbo zei bangu. This way you > don't have to remember any rafsi. Though you can also use four-letter rafsi for all but the final component and use the full gismu for that: "lojbybangu", which also means the same thing. And it shouldn't be too hard to remember the four-letter ones :) mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton