From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Jan 22 01:09:25 1996 Received: from vms.dc.lsoft.com ([205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id SAA16630 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:37:28 -0500 Message-Id: <199601202337.SAA16630@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by vms.dc.lsoft.com (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 92E97AFB ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:06:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 17:45:44 +0000 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: sera'aku SNU: ki'e doi skot. To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 872 Lojbab: > What I am hearing is that somehow people have the idea that lujvo are > 2nd class words They are. They're longer than gismu, don't have their own rafsi, and can lose their identity in larger lujvo. > There is also the undercurrent, which is getting me nervous - that all > words need to be 2 or 3 syllables. I sense it too. It's interesting. I remember you posting some stats about preferences for rafsi type, showing how use of CCV and CVV is much greater than CVC and CV'V - there appears to be some presiding aesthetic in the community. > Lojban content words are going to be PREDOMINANTLY 3, 4, 5 or 6 > syllables. ideally Zipf will work to make it possible to have the > shortest words be the most common ones What's the mechanism for that? If a long lujvo starts getting used a lot, how can it be abbreviated? coo, mie and