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On Friday 12 November 2010 22:35:53 ComputerPsi wrote:
> Lojban is noted to have 1,300 root words or gismu. The rest of the
> words, if not cmavo (structure words), are various combinations of
> gismu to describe more advanced objects.

There are also fu'ivla. A type-3 fu'ivla is a combination of a gismu and a 
foreign part; a type-4 fu'ivla is a bare foreign word (or an imitative word 
or an irregular combination such as "vonpaso").

> Here is an example of something that really gets to me:
> The word for mouse: smacu. (gismu)
> The word for rat: ratcu. (gismu)
> The word for horse: xirma. (gismu)
> The word for pony: cmaxi'a. (lujvo)

What gets to me, in the animal gismu, is that the four gismu for kinds of 
birds all belong to the Galloanseri, and none belong to the largest order of 
birds, the Passeriformes.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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