[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 10

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I wasn't around when the gimsu, er, gismu were built,
> or I would have insisted on weeding out all such metathesis-identical
> pairs.  At present there are 20:
>
> bartu bratu
> bruna burna
> cikre ckire
> cinta cnita
> citno ctino
> garna grana
> gerku greku
> jbini jibni
> kruji kurji
> marji mraji
> pelji pleji
> sakci skaci
> samcu smacu
> sarji sraji
> stura sutra
> tarti trati
> tirna trina
> tisna tsina
> stali tsali
> stani tsani
>
> I think it's important that if we do end up making new gismu
> (something I am *not* in favor of), we don't make any more such pairs.

You missed the ratcu/ractu variety, so more than 20.

I don't find them too annoying when the meanings are completely
unrelated though. It's the conflation of related meaning and similar
form that I mind the most.

mu'o mi'e xorxes