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[lojban] Re: lojgloss gismu glossing



On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:03 PM, namor <eldrikdo@gmail.com> wrote:
> To me this sounds like a very good idea.
>
> There are two more things I tend to forget/misremember as well:
> - Switching vowels in cmavo like: a'o/o'a
> - Switching second two letters in gismu with CCVCV order: cfika => cifka
>
> I wonder if this kind of mistakes are common.
>
> At least the second could easily be detected.

Hmm. Even the second can't always be detected. There are 36 gismu that
have another gismu with such a switched pair of letters. (E.g. gerku,
greku; tirna, trina). But there's still plenty of room to look for
mistaken transpositions.

(There are 26 gismu in a (rectu, certu) pair, 32 in a (nilce, nelci)
pair, and 20 in a (tsani, tsina) pair.)

Chris Capel
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