From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 22 21:10:12 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gn6qP-0000lA-GR for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:09:53 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gn6qM-0000kw-QJ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:09:53 -0800 Received: from [192.168.7.3] (unknown [192.168.7.3]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E681CE7ED for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:09:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45652CE8.5000800@phma.optus.nu> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:08:56 -0500 From: Pierre Abbat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ki'a References: <492596e80611182014o7608f9d3k76f7247f5926b98b@mail.gmail.com> <1df90d2b0611182026yeb05a5eo95f815883cb20fd@mail.gmail.com> <836504149.20061119104734@mail.ru> <4560FB73.5060706@lojban.org> <4810154213.20061120071558@mail.ru> <45622725.7010705@lojban.org> In-Reply-To: <45622725.7010705@lojban.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 13252 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Bob LeChevalier wrote: > Yanis Batura wrote: >> There are only 1342 semantic hint classes. > > > Most natural languages using a semantic classifier system have a couple > orders of magnitude fewer classes (they are commonly called "genders", > Swahili has 14, and Russian has only 3), and they work anyway. The semantic classifier system has nothing to do with gender, which Lojban doesn't have. The equivalent of a type-3 fu'ivla is a word like "killifish", where the first part has no meaning by itself, and the second tells what kind of thing the referent is. phma 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.