Re: [lojban] Re: emotions

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 03:32 AM 5/25/03 -0400, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 01:16:29PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > Why is it important that infrequently used jargon words have very short
> > forms?
>
> (glances at lau, tei, and foi)

Content words.  Obviously in Lojban, cmavo will be shorter than any content 
word, and people don't normally consider cmavo to be jargon.  (I'm 
surprised that there has seldom been criticism of re'a, which I myself 
thought was a questionable addition, deferring to people with more 
mathematical orientations.)

I will note in passing that lau, tei, and foi were added to the language 
before Unicode, and before Gary Burgess and I came up with word+bu as 
alternate approaches to letteral words.  The problem remains the same, and 
it is important that there be short ways to say acronyms even when they 
don't use Lojban-alphabet lerfu, but we now have more solutions than we 
need.  I have no doubt that the byfy can come up with the appropriate ones 
to delete, and this is one area where I will likely support a baseline 
change, since we have a combination of non-usage, good alternate solutions, 
and an important problem that key people feel needs the cmavo (the gadri 
issue).

lojbab

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