From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 07 07:42:14 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED17u-0005YM-Lz for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:42:14 -0700 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ED17s-0005YE-5I for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:42:14 -0700 Received: (qmail 13873 invoked by uid 534); 7 Sep 2005 08:42:09 -0600 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:42:09 -0600 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: three-letter gismu? Message-ID: <20050907144209.GL29546@miranda.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2001 X-Approved-By: jkominek@miranda.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: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > > After looking through the Lojbanic dictionary, I'm pretty > > certain that a lot of words can be trimmed. E.g: > > This argument has been brought up a lot before :) Over and over and over and over. Folks, if you havn't been around for a few years, and you're bringing up something about the design of Lojban, we've probably heard it before. Twice. Please check the mailing list archives. There are like 25,000 old messages going back years, and a wiki chock full of stuff. > The gismu list is not intended to be a minimal list of semantic primitives, > but merely to "blanket" semantic space, with some overlaps, partly for > convenience. Indeed. (Plus, if you change the whole thing, do you have any idea how grumpy you're going to make people who've already put time in memorizing stuff?) -- Jay Kominek