From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 27 09:55:36 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 27 May 2007 09:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HsM1o-0000vM-3d for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:55:36 -0700 Received: from lakepoint.domeneshop.no ([194.63.248.54]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HsM1l-0000vF-IQ for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:55:35 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (97.84-48-60.nextgentel.com [84.48.60.97]) (authenticated bits=0) by lakepoint.domeneshop.no (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4RGtQ7x009790 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:26 +0200 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary From: Einar Faanes To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <2f91285f0705270629x517fb2a7qdfc0acfbab65a136@mail.gmail.com> References: <1180044114.46560b52223fd@ssl0.ovh.net> <200705250019.05134.nazgjunk@gmail.com> <2f91285f0705270629x517fb2a7qdfc0acfbab65a136@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1180284925.5822.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lakepoint.domeneshop.no id l4RGtQ7x009790 X-Spam-Score: 2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: 26 X-Spam-Bar: ++ X-archive-position: 4733 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: einar@bommelibom.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners søn, 27,.05.2007 kl. 14.29 +0100, skrev Vid Sintef: > [...] > Toki Pona is even simpler than Lojban but therefore has to rely > heavily on longer compound words to say even something like "ear" (BTW > "ear" and "anus" share the word "lupa" because they share the property > "hole"!), and eventually it becomes so wordy and impracticable if you > do describe any complex matters. > [...] Btw. "lupa" is in fact is the only of Toki Pona's 118 words which is derived from lojban. It is derived from the lojbanic {clupa} (x1 is a loop/circuit of x2). http://tokipona.org/etym.html mu'o mi'e .emuzest.