X-Digest-Num: 272 Message-ID: <44114.272.1516.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:24:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Michal Wallace (sabren)" Subject: Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1516 Content-Length: 1475 Lines: 42 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Jorge Llambias wrote: > >There is some kind of magical trick > >to this process that ensures that no two lojban words are ever the same. > > Not magical, but admittedly a little more complicated > than it need have been. Having read a bit more... I think it makes a lot of sense.. I'm still not clear whether all gismu have the same patterns for their rafsi or not. Given a gismu you've never seen, should you be able to tell the rafsi? > Yes, please do! For example, someone just asked for the > meaning of {ta'u}. I would love to be able to do a search > to find out how many times {ta'u} has been used (if ever) > and with which of the two alternative meanings. We have > a pretty large corpus of Lojban text by now, but, as you say, > very difficult to use. I'll see what I can do.. > We're probably stuck with it as the official logo, but nothing > stops you or anyone else from creating and using a better > one, and if it catches on, it will become the unofficial logo... :) I don't know if it's any better, but I put a flag for an imaginary country I made up for a story a few years ago on my lojban site.. I kind of like the story behind the venn diagram and the arrows, though. Cheers, - Michal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.manifestation.com/ http://www.linkwatcher.com/metalog/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------