From lojban-beginners+bncCNjQm9DRGxC87vjmBBoEFzFqbw@googlegroups.com Fri Nov 12 22:59:28 2010 Received: from mail-yw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.213.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PHA57-0006Re-O8; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:28 -0800 Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3sf3519739ywj.16 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received :mime-version:received:received:date:x-ip:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=1AQtojPar+Plfd01pCMAf0WPigYXGOp+W9xvS3yiKg0=; b=xScA+fpsOcP+HnpUxn3ZHDZnJhF1KCuLiaEb1BRyIQf6u403xLKHcwb7kHWNPvelWp i9rhEnC6pFllmbEVxDu0l+y7gx+EXjfzVLFLLpE3DXQuA8et0+HB5XoHeVSUODY/DFDG YF9mHnOWdTxDW3rMuSrxVr/TjADQzzYLeXqAc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:x-ip:user-agent:x-http-useragent :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence :mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; b=moHN3/2ltm5YaY4AYJtqTQ40T3E7BEcHpmc2zWIAV+ykVUkJJ4pn8Ke3d0lYmRfMVJ 2HpGyw4dienTHKVZXEP+xPRE34Zb2UE/eSgHAxs35eyXvmLtkkJSCZP7CfcYk2BWqmbK uJFvNnyTh0erDNhERV6kELafDlezTzZ7YGbmw= Received: by 10.150.162.2 with SMTP id k2mr371923ybe.19.1289631548536; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:08 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.151.133.8 with SMTP id k8ls1374588ybn.4.p; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.57.8 with SMTP id f8mr943404yba.3.1289631547272; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:59:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.152.26 with SMTP id z26mr193338wfd.13.1289619353965; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by y2g2000prf.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:35:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:35:53 -0800 (PST) X-IP: 173.3.246.53 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <7dfb5cb7-f07e-4ecb-b7bb-c01a9be6931c@y2g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Question about the beginning and future of Lojban From: ComputerPsi To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: vilmer88@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Lojban is noted to have 1,300 root words or gismu. The rest of the words, if not cmavo (structure words), are various combinations of gismu to describe more advanced objects. My question is, will the number of gismu ever expand from 1,300? Who created these root words? Possibly more fundamental root words can be created? How was it decided, which would should be root, which should not? Here is an example of something that really gets to me: The word for mouse: smacu. (gismu) The word for rat: ratcu. (gismu) The word for horse: xirma. (gismu) The word for pony: cmaxi'a. (lujvo) Why is rat allowed to have its own root word but pony isn't? Who decides the importance of words? Thank you, Veniamin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.