From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jun 04 09:16:29 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCFcD-0004NP-6P for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:16:29 -0700 Received: from mail-qy0-f186.google.com ([209.85.221.186]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCFcA-0004MT-5t for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:16:28 -0700 Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so900440qyk.28 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:16:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ntzmSfiwvxiFJPiuYc+51UAcVxq9GChwXPw4z8cAo+Q=; b=v8uJQbbaATdG4lJ1i2thdqx/7C+Ox6NhtwtHHRcOF/BpRuQt/VueZyGdjhX2hIhCnF YLBA/MsFd14W8xsNpwS98FpmBlvJu67HMKbsD/vwCSW6nZBHD0tG3kVx6fTYTdfVc23r 9+8DSLWsDN52aO8YZnWPTBmPKXCSgFAh4AsQA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IAeamNP0SUXK92dpL2BW6Qbo4bMypEzVzJEtBv/wVub1EK1cBEIKwiMsQJBsghgtgj 1DAntFuv2glpXutgQqKplfHpM7XZpBFSjVzxhxN3qcn+R7eGEh6kjaNHFii66L0jKOcF AG1ILD8lmRG2rs7JZD2Li/3WCSF0lNHD7iV7I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.128.7 with SMTP id f7mr3913536ybn.245.1244132180058; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:16:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <96f789a60906040915v580c145j4dcae4a23b88ccbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <4de8c3930906011038w26ecef60hba19650d3e6e8142@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560906011204t16b3e688i575816c47af3bfdb@mail.gmail.com> <96f789a60906040915v580c145j4dcae4a23b88ccbd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:16:20 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60906040916i7dbff8ei77215e3f760ffb7b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: bu denpa From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 1770 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 Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Michael Turniansky wrote: >> > >  In 1975 Loglan, there were a set of 8 suffixes to correspond to each > combination of {capital/lowercase} {Latin/Greek} {consonant/vowel}. > Thus, sai was capital "S", sei was lowercase "s", sao was capital > sigma, seo was lowercase sigma.  The Latin uppercase suffix was -ma, > and so forth.  bu is probably holdover/remnant from that system. That last sentence should have read "the Latin uppercase VOWEL suffix, etc..." --gy