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[Michal Wallace <sabren@manifestation.com>]

coi rodo

I'm looking at the gismu list, and notice two columns of codes right
after the english definitions and before the cross references. What
do these mean?

The first one almost looks like some sort of grouping: blanu, xunre,
narju all share the code 1a.. 

The second one.. I thought I heard something about word frequency?
I just wrote a little program to sort the list by that number..
The top comes out like:

('cusku', 'express       ', '1h ', '872')
('tanru', 'phrase compoun', '1b ', '776')
('prenu', 'person        ', '1k ', '632')
('gismu', 'root word     ', '1b ', '554')
('djica', 'desire        ', '3l ', '500')
('lujvo', 'affix compound', '1b ', '428')
('diklo', 'local         ', '5d ', '426')
('klama', 'come          ', '1g1', '399')
('bacru', 'utter         ', '1h ', '386')
('djuno', 'know          ', '1h ', '375')
('sumti', 'argument      ', '1b2', '373')
('drata', 'other         ', '2g ', '351')
('kumfa', 'room          ', '2k ', '346')
('tavla', 'talk          ', '1h ', '338')
('nanmu', 'man           ', '1k ', '332')
('cmalu', 'small         ', '1e ', '326')
('citka', 'eat           ', '5c ', '320')
('barda', 'big           ', '1e ', '318')

I find it hard to believe tanru is a more common word than citka or
barda, but these do seem to be "simple" lojban words.. But then again,
the other end came out like:

('gluta', 'glove         ', 'ao ', '  0')
('pambe', 'pump          ', 'a  ', '  0')
('kanji', 'calculate     ', '7e ', '  0')
('barja', 'bar           ', 'ap ', '  0')
('sigja', 'cigar         ', 'a  ', '  0')
('xatsi', '1E-18         ', 'ae ', '  0')
('petso', '1E15          ', 'ae ', '  0')
('fanri', 'factory       ', '8c ', '  0')
('barna', 'mark          ', 'a  ', '  0')
('tsina', 'stage         ', '5g ', '  0')

Which definitely seem less common (or more culture-specific).

Am I reading these two codes right? Where did they come from?

Cheers,

- Michal
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