From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 09 11:28:00 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:28:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJCjn-0003MI-K4 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:28:00 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJCjk-0003M9-Ay for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:27:59 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 4so141591nfv for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:27:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qQVVKqnNI+qB/wuEQrfH4juUPLAi2roZ6XZNoDBifs3m7mARYoIQnfo7pz4lYJzSaqH7g92lNvxSk2t7GrLelOR3lcfPFzwZlA6Fs72T4orat/553dopSu9k/hFssRVKLDe3zYQcSGfKOjA2YCKRL1xpUfyRSH2ZWidIYywa61s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Jo6/pXClVBsI123ED5uQpcNwJ0+SpNI8lcJyr098qhj4KhMZxpADdttCXQqR5Nhp7THfNwNsi/zvjjp9bjHyRP8myliwn9dS0Y/B8a3YWDCopF1VDNcb/uKS3rwUh4qjH8LHr1lh9YjHIKtDHqtLPQDM+W6TYmAjR0jTCM3iguc= Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr1703064fga.1186684072357; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.86.13 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560708091127o614297bdp375d6843e453b727@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:27:52 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: anti-Zipfian gismu rant In-Reply-To: <46C3210B@webmail.bcpl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46C3210B@webmail.bcpl.net> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5324 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 8/9/07, turnip wrote: > > The "do they > speak a language that lojban bases its gismu list on?" criterion seems > extremely arbitrary. And besides it is not really followed by Lojban gismu anyway, otherwise there would be gismu for Colombian for example, since there are more Colombians than Algerians, and Spanish is one of the base languages. (There are more Colombians than Argentinians too, and Argentina did get a gismu.) mu'o mi'e xorxes