From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat May 31 08:42:42 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K2TEA-00054b-2E for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:42 -0700 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.251]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K2TE3-00053z-Bq for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:41 -0700 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so257155rvf.46 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=xZ6UzVaq1p1FRiRtuJ02T6EZVBU2xF+hFDJf66q8/KE=; b=fNbmUY3KlSoXHhhHsCzx/6Rk7RzPzVGP/duR2qe4qmqwp99lp0sifawHmSPFyv07DbXeHE/syl9eQ0TKrkFzwHJgDOGOvH2PDdpPA71rOpASk0fZ/pTiRFQS1Q0F63ZI2ip3uM1W5nK8JrqfVLrNyzAXq6699IOEibA5qRVOXsc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Oe7zu0gzh4sXKs3IZCcZIHHHpMnSEI2Dqhh7xD+reKtfZjETvm1fpwtbWZi+N/APJd9rKBIFhI2Z9Snm8HY8ebAP3njeZIzYXxtvYRuRhOZ1XbvwW0dbM1UdUxh0Ln95pjudUhawsG3JOIBQUOCz15FXg/1ngMgsr88V/oMXiLg= Received: by 10.114.255.1 with SMTP id c1mr2136439wai.87.1212248553711; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.94.16 with HTTP; Sat, 31 May 2008 08:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0805310842k13888544n1475ba2b80f0f68e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:42:33 +0200 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0805300810i2f7fb929oe927c5434d9b7f93@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160805300852m2f922402n556158970101b80e@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160805300858r60f0659ase172a2f1106e0916@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 621 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Alex Martini wrote: > On May 30, 2008, at 11:25 PM, LakMeer Kravid wrote: > >> I don't understand, why would you want to change these? are they >> wrong? i'm confused. > > If I remember right, there were some typos/errors made when the gismu were > being created. So, for example I think {gismu} was meant to be {gicmu}. > The change would be an attempt to "go back" to what the gismu-making > algorithm originally made. {kicne} is another example, which, according to the etymology, "wouldn't generate because no source words have vowel 'e'". I would disagree with komfo,amonan on the significance of such accuracy. mu'o mi'e tijlan