From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 22 14:09:57 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N14uz-0000so-0Z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:57 -0700 Received: from ol.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.20] helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N14uw-0000se-2m for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:56 -0700 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:jwodder@iceland.freeshell.org [192.94.73.5]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9ML9UFZ029595 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:09:30 GMT Received: (from jwodder@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.3/8.12.8/Submit) id n9ML9Um8029637 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:09:30 GMT Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:09:29 +0000 From: Minimiscience To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: danfu dandu danlu Message-ID: <20091022210927.GA15870@sdf.lonestar.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5715b9300910221359y76c159d9t4a41eb06d93f594c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5715b9300910221359y76c159d9t4a41eb06d93f594c@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SDF Public Access UNIX System User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-archive-position: 16382 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: minimiscience@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list de'i li 22 pi'e 10 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra. > While studying vocab I noticed the existence of {danfu}, {dandu}, and > {danlu}. When the LLG was putting lojban together was there no intention of > making the different words sound distinctive? .skamyxatra There was an intention, and Lojban was in fact designed so that the {gismu} sound distinctive, just not (apparently) by your personal standards of "distinctive." (Also, you missed "{dansu}.") See item 4 of the {gismu} creation algorithm in section 4.14 of the CLL for more information. mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun. -- jicmu traji zifre fa loi remna lonu senpi 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.