[lojban-beginners] Re: distinction between gismu & cmav

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 21 May 2007 03:13, Vid Sintef wrote:
> I've come to understand. Thank you.
>
> By the way, will there in the future be some addition or clearance of rafsi
> on the list? I've heard that the listing is still tentative and (someday
> when a proper Lojban dictionary is edited) may be changed in accordance
> with speakers' actual usage. I wonder, for instance, what's a rafsi for
> {damri}, which is currently non-existent? It's said that the number of
> rafsi assigned to a gismu depends on the word's usefulness; but shouldn't
> {damri} be quite productive and worthwhile, considering those numerous
> types of drum instruments in the world?

We already did a rafsi reassignment many years ago. Lojban as it was spoken 
before that is called {mijyjbo} and is now partly unintelligible. The rafsi 
in the gimste are now fixed and won't be changed (except {fi'u}, which the 
Book says belongs to {frinu}).

At jbonunsla I called my banjo {damryjgita}.

Pierre