Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 23 May 2007 05:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqqLn-0007OB-4R for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 05:54:02 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.246]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HqqLd-0007Nx-7R for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 05:53:55 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b21so45046ana for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 05:53:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Eql4uD4eyEV/X5ShZXRu1QihZS5z+lAnpsxXqHz4IQ3YDygG998pBua9M/PWJbatztZ1mFoYjmpeNsY4AO9cXs6ehyzYL+ZdfS8NJrrVlOGIu911MX5wrxuPwbzGhWfDindqbkNmoD84zaH5v+3t7lLvv6O3GuE6lMZDZ3fNYRs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cQ0IDEUMj+V5I8uURn3bG8Ls4f1bHqlqQ90egxFhip2gDDd3tk9GGj6WLe5yFM1ermeEPPx1k+USBAXUoJKM8vzm8lOvUfBc4Ny8RyFwGA98u+I3X2HjVYuZAiQffIF374C9inIwZKLHcJGP6pTiU4Pcb5XajgxM4dAcwUY5Dds= Received: by 10.100.209.10 with SMTP id h10mr327329ang.1179924823524; Wed, 23 May 2007 05:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.42.12 with HTTP; Wed, 23 May 2007 05:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560705230553w1b113856r527cee046b6f1f89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:43 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Five words In-Reply-To: <1179873390.4653706e03295@ssl0.ovh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1179865979.4653537b1fa28@ssl0.ovh.net> <925d17560705221359h65cddb4dy4d42aa2eae639983@mail.gmail.com> <200705221808.33200.phma@phma.optus.nu> <1179873390.4653706e03295@ssl0.ovh.net> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4607 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 532 On 5/22/07, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > Is there something shorter (an abbreviation kids > would use), like the French velo? There is no official mechanism in Lojban for making words shorter, but I suppose that if {relxilma'e} or {relselxi'u} became popular then {relxi} or {relse} could be created as new gismu through usage. At this point this is mere speculation of course, and this can't become a general rule for shortening words because in other cases it could create ambiguities. mu'o mi'e xorxes