From philip.newton@gmail.com Sat Jul 24 02:41:46 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.201] helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BoJ20-0001oj-HK for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:31 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m68so37935rne for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.12.79 with SMTP id 79mr75739rnl; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537d06d004072402414811a44d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:41:27 +0200 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Projects In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: X-archive-position: 8320 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:23:51 -0000, reverendzow wrote: > Ah, but that's not what I meant about using radicals. Any word which > can be used directly in forming lujvo would -be- a radical; > therefore, any single character which was composed of such radicals > would be a lujvo or {X zei Y}. Ah! That would, of course, entail having over 1400 radicals, and some possibly quite complex characters (since there's no limit to the number of components to a lujvo - you could have a lujvo with, say, eight components if you wanted). > Also, a lujvo-forming radical could be used instead of a "this is any > one of my rafsi" radical, to indicate "the following and I are part > of one lujvo." That would work. > {valsi zei lerfu} (vlaler, vlale'u, or what?) vlale'u. Other possiblities include valyle'u. Remember that brivla have to end in a vowel, so vlaler is right out. (Though vlaler- is fine as part of a longer lujvo, e.g. vlalersni for valsi + lerfu + sinxa.) mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton