Return-Path: X-Sender: mathmaniac@hanmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 38896 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2003 11:35:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2003 11:35:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.70) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2003 11:35:05 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.154] by n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Jun 2003 11:35:05 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:35:01 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: mumym problem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20030618112240.GD2095@ccil.org> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "sshiskom" X-Originating-IP: 143.248.205.98 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122399845 X-Yahoo-Profile: sshiskom X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20167 Content-Length: 612 Lines: 19 John Cowan wrote: > I am *not* saying that you should enforce these constraints, > just that that's what is required for a valid gismu form. > Personally, I would let people guess any old @#$*. Why not, > it's their guess they are wasting. I disagree. One difficulty of 5x5 is that one wants to make a query consists of such-and-such letters, but one cannot recollect an appropriate word. That's why English version of 5x5 enforces query words to be scrabble-sane. It's not "wasting". Such @#$* query may not be the word one wants, but it may provide very useful clue to find it. mi'e sanxiyn.