[lojban-beginners] Re: cf

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/16/05, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's what the abbreviation means (short for Latin "confer"), but what
> are the comparison criteria?  How does a gismu get into the cf list? 

Mostly words with similar or opposite meanings, sometimes a related
cmavo, sometimes a word totally unrelated in Lojban but related
to a different sense of the English keyword. Sometimes by accident
(as in kumte - kanla, where probably kumte - kanba was intended). 

mu'o mi'e xorxes