From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Aug 20 04:46:18 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GElk0-0005jy-B5 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:45:22 -0700 Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GEljQ-0005ip-Ex for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:45:11 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19B494780 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:44:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [Anecdote #19] Lojbanic Compass In-Reply-To: <997079364.20060820150033@mail.ru> Message-ID: References: <997079364.20060820150033@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 12509 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Yanis Batura wrote: > [attached picture of compass with B, S, S, S] If I recall correctly, the cmavo be'a, ne'u, du'a, and vu'a were chosen specifically for the purpose of their initial letters being different. A better compass might have b, d, n, and v. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ "My speech recognition software may have trouble with ordinary words, but not with ketoprofen." --Magnus Itland To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.