From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue May 27 11:52:43 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41904.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.155]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19KjYq-00047C-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 27 May 2003 11:52:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20030527185205.30243.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 May 2003 11:52:05 PDT Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:52:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: le mulno lerfu jufra To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 5453 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list la sanxiyn cusku di'e > lu le fagri ne'i le bidju patxu ka'e cizysmu li vore li'u > cu mulno lerfu jufra bau la lojban. > > "The fire in the beed pot can be a mysterious interpretation > of forty-two" is a pangram(complete-letter-sentence) in Lojban. > > But it's too long -- 40 letters long, and Lojban uses only > 24 letters. They are 26 alphabets, minus h, q, w, plus apostrophe. I once proposed: .o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi [Caution!] There are five hungry Soviet cows in the garden! (It will also work with French (fas-) or Palestinian (fis-) cows instead of Soviet ones.) It uses 33 letters counting the apostrophe, with no repetition of consonants (and it includes the dot). The number of vowels could be reduced a bit, but I don't think it can be done with exactly 24 letters unless you use cmene or fu'ivla. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com