From lojban-out@lojban.org Sat Sep 23 03:42:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 15868 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2006 10:42:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m41.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Sep 2006 10:42:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2006 10:42:22 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GR4wr-0004ok-AZ for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:41:32 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GR4uu-0004n3-CY; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:39:34 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GR4u5-0004mK-04 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:38:38 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GR4tl-0004lz-0e for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:38:22 -0700 Received: from [192.168.25.19] (unknown [192.168.25.19]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F142DCE4BC for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:37:47 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609230637.48809.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) X-archive-position: 12613 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Pierre Abbat From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@phma.optus.nu Subject: [lojban] synonymy vs. homonymy X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=rRVyN67jqtsnOf4T4jhhfYkmyrS7C1Ypxqd6w_nr5pnbBC6G-g X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 27047 I came upon a collection of writeups by Jim Hurford, one of which is called "Why Synonymy is Rare". He ran an experiment to find out why homonyms are common, even in languages which don't borrow from other languages, while synonyms are rare and are usually the result of borrowing. In Lojban homonymous brivla are forbidden, while synonyms exist, resulting from two people borrowing different words from another language or using different phrases to make lujvo. http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/author/jhurford.html phma To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.