[lojban] Re: {ki'a} for part of a word

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Friday 06 April 2007 04:22, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> Where does "ace" enter into the picture? "sarvantonke" is a pseudo-lujvo
> made up of {sar}, {van}, and the 5-letter rafsi of the nonexistent gismu
> {tonke}.

sarvantonke is acetone. sarvanslami is acetic acid. If this happened in 
English, I would say "acetone", and you hear "acet" clearly but not "one", 
and might say "ace - what?".

Pierre


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