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[lojban-beginners] Re: nice to meet you




On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:15 AM, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:

Selon "komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com>:

[ li'o ]


Perhaps { .oi nai ro'a }
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

Why not ".oinai" (in one word)?

The Germans say "angenehm" (one word). And the
French "enchante" (one word, too). It seems
strange that Lojban needs three? English, needing
four words to express the same thing, IS
certainly strange.

Martin

I think it's worth pointing out that {.oinai ro'a} and {.oi nai ro'a}, and even {.oinairo'a} are exactly the same. Since they're cmavo, the spaces are optional. So there's no sense calling them "2 words", "3 words" and "1 word" -- it's any of those depending on how you want to think about it, and 3 cmavo.

mu'o mi'e .aleks.