Re: [lojban] cmavo frequency?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:59:10PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/31/2001 4:33:01 PM Central Standard Time, 
> rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca writes:
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> > Subj: [lojban] cmavo frequency?
> > Date: 1/31/2001 4:33:01 PM Central Standard Time
> > From:    rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)
> > To:    lojban@yahoogroups.com
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> > Is there a list of cmavo usage frequency, the way the gismu file has
> > frequency in it?
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> I doubt it.  The frequency for the gismu is for the source words, not the 
> gismu themselves (I think) 

Since the most frequent word is 'sumti', I think you're wrong there.  8)

> and the correlation between cmavo and anything in source langauges is
> pretty iffy (not that that between gismu and anything in the sources
> is that clearcut).  I don't think really accurate frequencies *in
> Lojban* are possible yet, given the instability of the corpus -- and
> its reliance on English et al.

Since this is just for flashcarding, it's a start.

-Robin

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