From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat May 31 11:50:44 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K2WA8-0007K5-5Z for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:44 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K2WA2-0007Jk-JS for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:44 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b50so235576pyh.30 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:37 -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=DLK7AUckNjRwWXUS8B2Z4sriPosnBe/KgkdvvS26Mis=; b=q9fGPkEBZlWpk/s6O87kqDVgFP+LBXMs7mVTYOTulpkX9eTdGdwB35e2A2bVk9y2K0zpAw++lBcrdvQiQQSXV39UbiIVqVgFEDIjiCejrtuQAZKNLhdXBc8z4awJkJqKw1/b4LUVyO498VAeT0QRMFuXwrvczypK9Q23aoR85Fg= 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=hUBnbO3iwCNoh1UXRNT+YJ9B+bw563vxeeePDwMrOwa9NqoVcWLSm5ulaFC0y8hftBmj6SF6gGAlbXc9KDuQud1P5Yz2zH/i9eHfpmtpkoy/xaSw6/8GOihO1aF0FMWLSeGMslBZ147Vu0xptcFbZG8p9BuCY6G2Cl1Z8rfY/b4= Received: by 10.114.235.8 with SMTP id i8mr7791458wah.194.1212259836259; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.94.16 with HTTP; Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0805311150x33801f3r8d8581974031b97a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 20:50:36 +0200 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Fwd: the gismu typos In-Reply-To: <510762.8374.qm@web56409.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0805310930i6bc3744axf656ccc3a599214a@mail.gmail.com> <510762.8374.qm@web56409.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 627 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 7:28 PM, Nathaniel Krause wrote: > "Spofu" is not easier to learn than "spotu" in principle, but it certainly > is easier to learn in principle, since the learner would always be getting > confused by old texts which use "spofu", or by speakers who learnt "spofu" > previously and have forgotten to switch to the new version. Supposing the new version is officially defined with clarification that {spofu} is a typo of {spotu}, why would the learner be confused about the definition from then onward? And supposing the confusion does occur to them, would that matter more than the communal confusion over {zo'e/zu'i} or over the ill-defined place structures does? mu'o mi'e tijlan