From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 26 12:28:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 26 Sep 2001 19:28:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 12879 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 19:28:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Sep 2001 19:28:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 19:28:13 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05641; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:29:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB22C20.2050008@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:27:28 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: And Rosta Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] zipf computations & experimental cmavo References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11077 And Rosta wrote: > My sense is that binding-to-broda would not be an adequate substitute > for these abbreviatory methods, but as long as the binder is asymmetric > (what is the binder? goi? -- I certainly insist that goi should be asymmetric), > the long form could be bound to any valid brivla form, which I do feel > would be satisfactory. It's cei, which is the pro-bridi analogue of goi, and subject to the same asymmetry rules. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel