RE: [lojban] Re: emotions

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Lojbab:
> 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, 

Not in principle. There are CVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV cmavo, in principle.

> (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.)

It's disyllabic. There is no shortage of bisyllabic cmavo space.

> it is important that there be short ways to say acronyms even when they 
> don't use Lojban-alphabet lerfu, 

Not so important that the need has manifested itself in usage yet...

--And.