Re: lojban newbie: an outsider looking in

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

John Cowan wrote:

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

If you could guess the rafsi from the gismu, this would mean each
gismu had one unique rafsi, in which case we could have dispensed
with gismu and only used rafsi (something like Dutton
Speedwords!).

More practically - you can't guess rafsi from gismu, but you can
often guess gismu from rafsi with a lujvo and a bit of context,
which I think is the idea.


co'o mi'e robin.