Re: [lojban] Re: emotions

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:48 PM 5/26/03 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> It's disyllabic. There is no shortage of bisyllabic cmavo space.

What is this big need for monosyllabic cmavo, except perhaps for the REALLY 
frequent and fundamental words of the language like the logical connectives?

No one has been hurt, so far as I know, by "le du'u"/"le se du'u" and 
"la'edi'u" being longer than one syllable, and I can imagine few things 
that need a shorter one.

The argument for the lerfu-builders being monosyllables was that they never 
would stand alone, but would always be in a string of several cmavo, and we 
wanted to keep the string short.  This is turn was motivated by the 
importance (and frequency) of acronyms in many languages, and the already 
difficult rendering of Chinese and other non-Roman characters in 
Lojban.  Unicode has solved the latter, and we seem to be satisfied with 
other ways to use lerfu.  (Don't know if gamma ray has a lujvo yet, 
though).  So I could let those go (out of the language or longer cmavo - 
either way).

I am also favoring that the byfy start using the xVV cmavo, as the reason 
for reserving them seems to be fulfilled by the current effort.

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