From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 12 06:27:59 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L0GhK-0005yf-QT for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:27:58 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L0GhH-0005yT-By for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:27:58 -0800 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta05.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20081112142740.FDGP7376.cdptpa-omta05.mail.rr.com@chausie> for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:27:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4853D1518 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:27:40 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: A priest, a rabbi and an Indian chief walk into a bar... Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:27:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <71550650811111530v3febc4a1t30b7f69427cdbde1@mail.gmail.com> <71550650811120359h58c9d0bet534e81c46f07fa01@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811120558j4ef3e16ek5548782f2d3afc8d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560811120558j4ef3e16ek5548782f2d3afc8d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811120927.38589.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 1016 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 12 November 2008 08:58:29 Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: > > Unfortunately, I understand that I can't use "rabi" as a type-4 fu'ivla > > because it falls apart "the think we mentioned before + 8". > > Right. You need a consonant cluster to hold it together. You could try > "rabvi" or "ravbi" if you don't mind unofficial gismu. I don't think that the concept warrants a gismu, even an unofficial one. Some languages stick an "n" in the word, so how about "ravbino" or "ravboni"? Pierre