From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 11 08:15:11 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DL0d5-0004Hy-8l for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:15:11 -0700 Received: from pm-mx6.mgn.net ([195.46.220.208] helo=pm-mx6.mx.noos.fr) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DL0d4-0004HS-7c for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:15:11 -0700 Received: from m148.net81-67-70.noos.fr (m148.net81-67-70.noos.fr [81.67.70.148]) by pm-mx6.mx.noos.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC9526B8E for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:14:38 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:14:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Yann Le Du X-X-Sender: yann@neuron.noos.fr To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] Re: Denoting counterfactual sentences in Lojban? In-Reply-To: <200504111456.j3BEucTd032528@mole.e-mol.com> Message-ID: References: <20050408204144.GC26545@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20050408232158.GQ26545@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <200504111456.j3BEucTd032528@mole.e-mol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1377 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: yann.ledu@noos.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Matt Arnold wrote: > When a root word has more than one abbreviated form, is there ever a > rationale to use one and not the other in a particular compound word? > The only reason I have ever thought of was to prevent unpronouncable > consonant combinations. - epkat There's also the vowel ending issue, which leads to a different usage for lojban and lojbau, the latter being a selbri and not the former (it's a cmene I think). Apart from what you said and what I added, I don't know... -- mi'e .ian.xek.