[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 10

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> On Monday 20 September 2010 11:39:31 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>> The worst part is that jbi is the rafsi for jibni, not for jbini.
>>
>> Probably the most confusing pair of gismu, perhaps competing with
>> ractu/ratcu and grana/garna. Related meanings and similar forms.

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.