X-Digest-Num: 273 Message-ID: <44114.273.1529.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:00:49 +0200 From: Robin Turner Subject: Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1529 Content-Length: 474 Lines: 21 John Cowan wrote: > > But just looking at a gismu and knowing the rafsi, no. > If you could guess the rafsi from the gismu, this would mean each gismu had one unique rafsi, in which case we could have dispensed with gismu and only used rafsi (something like Dutton Speedwords!). More practically - you can't guess rafsi from gismu, but you can often guess gismu from rafsi with a lujvo and a bit of context, which I think is the idea. co'o mi'e robin.