Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

"Michal Wallace (sabren)" wrote:

> Given a gismu you've never seen, should you
> be able to tell the rafsi?

Sort of.  For each gismu, there are at most seven possible
rafsi for it, of which zero, one, two, or (in rare cases) three
are actually assigned to it.  Furthermore, if you know the rafsi
for some phonetically similar gismu, you can often rule out many or
all of the possibilities, because you already know that those rafsi
are assigned to other gismu.

But just looking at a gismu and knowing the rafsi, no.

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