From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 26 13:01:31 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:14:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFIPT-0005EN-0Y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:01:31 -0800 Received: from [66.70.67.10] (helo=epmail2.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DFIPQ-0005EG-3c for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:01:30 -0800 Received: from shindra.com ([217.157.231.11]) by epmail2.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:52:54 -0800 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:01:28 +0100 To: From: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: interrelated vocab word length Re: Re: Hello list [introduction] Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2005 20:52:54.0796 (UTC) FILETIME=[C8810CC0:01C53245] X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-archive-position: 1335 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: lojban@shindra.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners er... uhm... what does 'unambiguous morphology' mean? = = = Original message = = = On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:26:29AM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote: > I don't think words would get too long if one just used > single-syllable root words. That would yield more than 250 root > words with the same letters and VV-diphthongs Lojban uses. But would it preserve the unambiguous morphology? I doubt it very much. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.