Received: from access2.digex.net by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA20430 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 16 Dec 1994 16:02:26 -0500 Received: by access2.digex.net id AA29762 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for lojbab); Fri, 16 Dec 1994 16:02:10 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199412162102.AA29762@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: zo tosmabru cu smuni ma To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 16:02:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199412160553.AA08472@nfs1.digex.net> from "Chris Bogart" at Dec 15, 94 09:48:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 689 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Dec 16 16:02:31 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la kris. cusku di'e > zo tosmabru cu smuni ma? .i mi na se slabu le rafsi po'u zo tos. "Tosmabru" is not a Lojban word. It is a mythical word which illustrates one kind of error in manufacturing lujvo. Under certain conditions, a lujvo intended to be of the form "tos-mabru" will instead be interpreted as the cmavo plus shorter lujvo "to sma-bru". The cure is to insert a "y" to make "tos-y-mabru". The rules for detecting tosmabru-type lujvo are fairly complex, and I won't state them here. (The word predates the Lojban/TLI Loglan split, and may have meant something in TLI Loglan.) -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.