From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 07 11:54:08 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED53g-0000v7-8T for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:54:08 -0700 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ED53c-0000uy-FG for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:54:08 -0700 Received: from [85.226.145.39] ([85.226.145.39] [85.226.145.39]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050907185401.DIBP27212.mxfep02.bredband.com@[85.226.145.39]> for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:54:01 +0200 Message-ID: <431F35F1.7090606@handgranat.org> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:48:17 +0200 From: Sunnan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: three-letter gismu? References: <431D5994.8070009@gulik.co.nz> <2d3df92a050906072639f0c403@mail.gmail.com> <431ECD79.8040003@gulik.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <431ECD79.8040003@gulik.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2011 X-Approved-By: sunnan@handgranat.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: sunnan@handgranat.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Michael van der Gulik wrote: > > After looking through the Lojbanic dictionary, I'm pretty certain that > a lot of words can be trimmed. E.g: > > mamta -> nimrir > patfu -> naurir > verba -> selrir Err, no. They can't end with a consonant. I don't think there are enough gismu, or enough attitudinals for that matter. I'm glad that the list is bit redundant. TMTOWTDI.