[lojban-beginners] Re: three-letter gismu?

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
> > After looking through the Lojbanic dictionary, I'm pretty 
> > certain that a lot of words can be trimmed. E.g:
> 
> This argument has been brought up a lot before :)

Over and over and over and over.

Folks, if you havn't been around for a few years, and you're bringing
up something about the design of Lojban, we've probably heard it
before. Twice. Please check the mailing list archives. There are like
25,000 old messages going back years, and a wiki chock full of stuff.

> The gismu list is not intended to be a minimal list of semantic primitives,
> but merely to "blanket" semantic space, with some overlaps, partly for
> convenience.

Indeed. (Plus, if you change the whole thing, do you have any idea
how grumpy you're going to make people who've already put time in
memorizing stuff?)

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>