From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri Jan 8 01:15:50 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:22:06 -0500 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5548; Fri, 08 Jan 93 06:21:15 EST Received: from CUVMB.BITNET by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4434; Fri, 08 Jan 93 06:20:59 EST Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:15:50 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TECH: se, te, & lujvo X-To: ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: Not a lot of reason to turn se jerna into seljerna. But then, why did we turn grand father into grandfather back when the two were synonymous, as I presume they once were. If people come to think of a concept as a single word, or as worthy of a single word, they will do so. In the case of seljerna, there is no advantage in doing so, and even a negative one, since the compound is longer than the separate components. In other cases, using sel allows you to use a 3-letter rafsi for the second term, giving a significant advantage. And f course if you add extra terms on the front, you also gain advantage in word length. lojbab