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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: nice to meet you
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On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:15 AM, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:

> Selon "komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com>:
>
>> [ li'o ]
>>
>>
>> Perhaps { .oi nai ro'a }
>> mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan
>
> Why not ".oinai" (in one word)?
>
> The Germans say "angenehm" (one word). And the
> French "enchante" (one word, too). It seems
> strange that Lojban needs three? English, needing
> four words to express the same thing, IS
> certainly strange.
>
> Martin

I think it's worth pointing out that {.oinai ro'a} and {.oi nai  
ro'a}, and even {.oinairo'a} are exactly the same. Since they're  
cmavo, the spaces are optional. So there's no sense calling them "2  
words", "3 words" and "1 word" -- it's any of those depending on how  
you want to think about it, and 3 cmavo.

mu'o mi'e .aleks.