Re: [lojban] va'u

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 
> >All those of the form "xVV" (4), "xV'V" (25), and all those with more than three
> >letters excluding apostrophes (uncountably many).  Examples of the latter are
> >ai'u, fau'a, zo'o'o'o.
> 
> That is only countably many. You can't get an uncountable infinity of finitely
> long strings of letters from a finite alphabet.

Oops, yes, I meant to say "[countably] infinitely many".

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