From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Thu Oct 24 18:00:36 1991 Return-Path: Date: Thu Oct 24 18:00:36 1991 Message-Id: <9110242115.AA22416@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Mini-lesson X-To: lojban To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: <9110231914.AA06150@relay1.UU.NET>; from "61510::GILSON" at Oct 23, 91 3:08 pm Status: RO la brus. gilsn. cusku di'e > (1) For the same reason you went to short-e as an example of the "e" sound, > you need to change the example for "o." English speakers seeing that example > will make it "ou," which you don't want. It's not a problem, as "ou" is not a valid Lojban diphthong, unlike "ei". > (2) Perhaps it's there and I missed it, but I'm still not quite sure of the > definition of a sumti. Is it the _slot_, or the word/expression that fills > the slot? The slot filler. The slot itself is called a "place". -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban