Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 20 May 2007 10:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HppOy-0003rQ-Qu for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 10:41:05 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HppOy-0003rC-0S for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 10:41:04 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 10:41:03 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: distinction between gismu & cmavo Message-ID: <20070520174103.GK7871@digitalkingdom.org> References: <2f91285f0705201027w32358e69v3e6093496d67cc5d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f91285f0705201027w32358e69v3e6093496d67cc5d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 4535 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 559 On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:27:31PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote: > My understanding is that every gismu consists of 5 letters. But on > the gismu list I find those various words of less than 5 letters. > {mi} is an example. {mi} is a cmavo; it is listed on the gismu list solely because it has a rafsi, and the cmavo list format doesn't have room for those. -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/