From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri May 12 10:02:02 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Feb1d-0006Cd-Ab for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:02:01 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=blackcat.ixazon.lan) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Feb1b-0006CM-1x for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:02:01 -0700 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D33E582; Fri, 12 May 2006 17:02:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: rafsi and FAhA's Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:02:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060512154703.29965.qmail@web36410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060512154703.29965.qmail@web36410.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605121302.04895.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 3197 X-Approved-By: phma@phma.optus.nu X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Friday 12 May 2006 11:47, c k wrote: > coi rodo > > I noticed that: > > trixe rix ti'e FAhA ti'a > > Why didn't they make the rafsi for trixe simply {ti'a}? The rafsi of a gismu consists of three letters from the gismu and possibly an apostrophe. There is no "a" in {trixe}. {mupli} has two cmavo derived from it, {mu'a} and {mu'u}. Neither could be its rafsi. {stuna} and {stici} begin with the same letter. So do their rafsi. Their cmavo {du'a} and {vu'a} don't, which is why the Lojban compass is marked B, N, D, V. phma