From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Nov 25 12:56:04 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L54x2-0000Au-LK for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:56:04 -0800 Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com ([209.85.217.17]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L54wz-0000AN-O5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:56:04 -0800 Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so331099gxk.10 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:55:55 -0800 (PST) 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=c5qSTYP/dhEa5RFRdQsccvnBf79N49eBUpwmjv1M8IE=; b=dD7pD+ul+uQnHzLIT/IM8zjGtgpdUXavRaSYHqYTlHrUoD8Y609M38UWGuQofhcGv1 pamAXNpPWpUmtcaIOAl1OajnF66ZyiU9Tp/W9SoW4F5Zie+2xz4eWoHc5crr4e4TNUQk 1LyUYW+egejahdCktNUbDrKoXzPy+6k5rKW+Y= 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=FsV1q1SgI4dpZmDJlKBUGiXDXjQMtRuT/KsNaPc+r00DQB6CT1ZllMIZAvZ///gSue r5p2OFFP0R1M9VT/Ny2urQs3xTTGwr+qZA74JckXn+K5SUlZcJIBhOOayWfg1L3w2uVm FCoGYMac69a9CEV7ygPEMCVfJSS7DOGSfoa3Y= Received: by 10.142.246.19 with SMTP id t19mr2287355wfh.42.1227646553168; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.118.7 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:55:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96f789a60811251255g21398371xa84cc01756b321d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:55:53 -0500 From: "Michael Turniansky" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cmavo In-Reply-To: <918110.763.qm@web30407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <925d17560811250504p3605e24u49ee7a98cb27d0b6@mail.gmail.com> <918110.763.qm@web30407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1062 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Tom Gysel wrote: > > Thank you Xorxes. > > That was exactly what I wanted to know. > > > So the BAI cmavo are almost never used? OK, won't bother with memorizing > them. Actually, that's not what he said. he said "most" of them are never used. And that's probably true. However, there are many that are quite useful, and many that while xorxes doesn't use, many other people (i.e. me) do. > I do want to memorize the most frequently used cmavo, I'm currently working > with the lojban text of 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran and translated by > Matt Arnold, and in almost every sentence there's a CV'V cmavo (not even > counting the basic "ko'a") > I would be interested to know which CV'V cmavo (and other cmavo) are most > used in this particular text and/or in general in lojban text/speech. A great list that is sorted in frequency of use order (both gismu and cmavo, though) is located here: http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/flashcards/big_list --gejyspa