Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4C9-0003I7-91 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:20:25 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Dv4C9-0003I0-0I for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:20:25 -0700 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:20:24 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Diminutives? Message-ID: <20050720022024.GA2444@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <5ccdc75305071906404cd192d4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5ccdc75305071906404cd192d4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1593 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: 545 On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:40:05AM -0400, J. Scott Jewell wrote: > I was wondering if anyone out there knows whether Lojban has a > diminutive, or anything like it. Like adding -ito or -ita to > things in Spanish, the difference between Bill and Billy or kitten > and kitty, stuff like that. Not really, but you can fake it with "dirba". -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/