From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 19 10:32:45 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CJxqJ-0000gm-0d for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:15 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:15 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: word derivatives Message-ID: <20041019173215.GA32722@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <15a.414a3e29.2ea66b38@wmconnect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15a.414a3e29.2ea66b38@wmconnect.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8774 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:06:00AM -0400, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 2004-10-19 5:21:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > > By the way: how does one derive causative forms, stative forms > > etc.? Are they derived from the same root or do they have > > separate forms? I think the first option would be more logical. > > This is one area where Lojban is extremely weak. Lojban uses > separate, unrelated forms (none derived from any other) for this > kind of word. Fixing it (and I do think it merits fixing) would > require a bunch of new lujvo, at the very least. It would make > learning the vocab a lot easier though. I have no idea what you people are talking about. Can you give me an example? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"