On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 00:40, Luke Bergen
<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
because sometimes rafsi by themselves are other words entirely. For instance "ta'e" is the rafsi for tanxe "box". But it also means "habitually". This is why rafsi are not true lojbo valsi in and of themselves.
Of course it doesn't work with the current Lojban phonological system (given the design goals), but there are a lot of very smart people here and I'm sure that coming up with a system that fulfilled the same design goals as Lojban but didn't require learners to memorize 0-3 extra combining forms for every root word would not prove to be overly ambitious.
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Adam Raizen <
adam.raizen@gmail.com>
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