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[lojban-beginners] Re: bu denpa

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>
> ÂIn 1975 Loglan, there were a set of 8 suffixes to correspond to each
> combination of {capital/lowercase} {Latin/Greek} {consonant/vowel}.
> Thus, sai was capital "S", sei was lowercase "s", sao was capital
> sigma, seo was lowercase sigma. ÂThe Latin uppercase suffix was -ma,
> and so forth. Âbu is probably holdover/remnant from that system.

  That last sentence should have read "the Latin uppercase VOWEL suffix, etc..."
 --gy