Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFI3A-0004j1-MM for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:38:28 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFI3A-0004iu-K9 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:38:28 -0800 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:38:28 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: interrelated vocab word length Re: Re: Hello list [introduction] Message-ID: <20050326203828.GN10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1334 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 533 On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:26:29AM +0100, lojban@shindra.com wrote: > I don't think words would get too long if one just used > single-syllable root words. That would yield more than 250 root > words with the same letters and VV-diphthongs Lojban uses. But would it preserve the unambiguous morphology? I doubt it very much. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/