From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:47:29 2010
Subject: Re: Incredible!
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: cowan
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:39:09 -0400 (EDT)
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la .and. cusku di'e

> There are 2 kinds of syllable, C(@) and CV. @ is schwa and can be
> omitted between certain consonant pairs. Cmavo are all of form CV
> or CVCV or CVCVCV, etc. Gismu are all of form C(@)CV (with 17 C
> and 5 V, that gives 1445 possible gismu; Lojban actually has 7 V
> phonemes and 22 C phonemes, so that gives 2904 possible gismu).

This involves throwing overboard the current gismu-assignment system
with its effort to be mnemonic in six languages proportional to their
number of speakers, of course.  That principle is actually far older in
the Project than the rafsi principle.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.