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Re: Alice proofreading



--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@w...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:07, jjllambias2000 wrote:
> > la greg cusku di'e
> > > why {grutrxananase} but {rutrceraso} what does the latter mean 
by
> >
> > the way?
> >
> > Typo. {grutrceraso} is "cherry".
> 
> Both are valid, 

I don't like using short rafsi for this because it can lead
to ambiguities. Things like {CVCrnC...} or {CCVnrC...} etc
could come from a short or long rafsi. Even though such
words are unlikely, even simple things like {rutrceraso}
could be misleading if {rutrV} was a gismu.
Would {rutnrzberi} be understood as rut-n-rzberi or 
rutn-r-zberi?

Type 3 fu'ivla are clumsy in any case, so I don't see
much advantage in adding to the confusion with 3-letter
rafsi.

mu'o mi'e xorxes