Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: Gismu uniqueness To: lojban-list Date: Mon, 13 May 91 17:17:15 EDT In-Reply-To: ; from "Chip Salzenberg" at May 10, 91 8:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Mon May 13 17:17:51 1991 X-From-Space-Address: cowan Chip Salzenberg writes: > So if no gismu like "bridV" other than "bridi" can be created, then > why not have all gismu end with the same vowell, say "o", thus freeing > up "CVVCa", "CVVCe", etc. for other uses? Mostly for better recognition. "blanu" = "blue" would be considerably less recognizable to English-speakers if it didn't end in "u". Also, what other uses? Gismu space is really pretty big, much larger than the existing number of gismu, and that provides needed redundancy. It is already a problem with Lojban that a garbled cmavo can produce utter nonsense; we need a reasonable amount of separation to make the language humanly usable. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban