From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 08 17:24:32 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IIvpI-00043q-5J for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:24:32 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IIvpG-00043j-3I for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:24:31 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAF9CE858 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:24:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: anti-Zipfian gismu rant Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:24:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <46C10802@webmail.bcpl.net> <925d17560708081230r311267c9leee11ce58ee4da08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560708081230r311267c9leee11ce58ee4da08@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708082024.24125.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5315 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 Wednesday 08 August 2007 15:30, Jorge Llambías wrote: > We have {xatsi} because it corresponds to an SI prefix, I don't see > a problem with that. We have {gutci} because the language designers > were from the US. There does not seem to be any other sensible > explanation for having non-SI units among the gismu. Also {gutci} has a place for "subunits", which I have no clue what to do with. > {samcu} is probably part of some gismu group or other that wouldn't > be complete without it, but I don't know much about that. {samcu} can refer to any edible starchy root. For cassava specifically I say {mandioka}. Pierre