From lojban+bncCJrK5PGGEBDTg6HqBBoEfYekmQ@googlegroups.com Tue Feb 01 09:24:57 2011 Received: from mail-ww0-f61.google.com ([74.125.82.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PkJyF-0006yM-SR; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:24:56 -0800 Received: by wwb34 with SMTP id 34sf7734716wwb.16 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:24:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:x-beenthere:received-spf:from:organization:to :subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :x-interia-antivirus:x-emid:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe; bh=WXDgU0FO8J3qhNjEmHO2sVgMj/Q/LAlNIpbUWBPF56M=; b=tXcYsWDM7J6j5y8wg8HSOKwK89N2G9DPG7vF3Urh8daQKc/JqwapOtq5fPRgHp4uNH 2o47kJw76KYfKRcgf/QBTBkXrpFskF25B0gnixr4THMJ/VQUUTLtFEHmameaN7Zt+KXN iokQvOhS7zKGhm1ACk73T0+RYyQSHM4aab1dg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:organization:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:x-interia-antivirus:x-emid :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe; b=tqbcdf/uNKkExc4IWoefzOCEeOY+No8zteV3lnYwo2UTKBJ3wyYNgwDpgHA2r/Vgz9 kejGbZQ/GzELrlnm2hsB5QILCs7NDsZIsVMlkoKP+xXG3x20tqXMbhu2TBRe3eaBZJ0X z2TILNUmQdOkL7YXK5Q0aLTBbIPUianN2IqnI= Received: by 10.216.29.201 with SMTP id i51mr206085wea.6.1296581075098; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:24:35 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.14.123.14 with SMTP id u14ls508437eeh.2.p; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.48.78 with SMTP id u54mr1512272eeb.8.1296580971586; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:22:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.14.48.78 with SMTP id u54mr1512271eeb.8.1296580971541; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:22:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpo.poczta.interia.pl (smtpo.poczta.interia.pl [213.25.80.2]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id 41si6915697ees.5.2011.02.01.09.22.51; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:22:51 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jezuch@interia.pl designates 213.25.80.2 as permitted sender) client-ip=213.25.80.2; Received: by smtpo.poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL, from userid 502) id 28E3A1CE85; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:22:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from zx-spectrum-1.localnet (aawx51.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.6.83.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL) with ESMTPSA for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:22:49 +0100 (CET) From: Krzysztof Sobolewski Organization: Sobole To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Random Zipfy question Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:30:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-hugepage; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart92637899.2zrHoOqOFA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102011830.21706.jezuch@interia.pl> X-Interia-Antivirus: OK X-EMID: 15c48acc X-Original-Sender: jezuch@interia.pl X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jezuch@interia.pl designates 213.25.80.2 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jezuch@interia.pl Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , --nextPart92637899.2zrHoOqOFA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dnia niedziela, 30 stycznia 2011 o 04:08:03 Michael Turniansky napisa=B3(a): > How come Spanish, Polish, Hebrew and lojban use only a single letter > for the concept "and", and English uses three? Why are we so > inefficient? I say it's a coincidence :) Polish does have "i" for {.e} etc., but other c= onnectives are not as concise - "lub" for {.a}, "albo" for {.onai}, for exa= mple. Although there are also "o" ("about"), "z" ("from"/"with"), "w" ("wit= hin") and some more. =2D-=20 Ecce Jezuch "I am praying for the raging flood I am waiting for you to come" - K. Rydberg --nextPart92637899.2zrHoOqOFA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1IQykACgkQy0fq9RM+TxhsWQCgxZqTtXnzAAjTcj358n9k0nh3 NjAAn2INh9zDt1O0xeuggan8jKbvKXig =Ud9g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart92637899.2zrHoOqOFA--