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Re: [lojban] Random Zipfy question



And the one-letter and one-syllable " and"s of Lojban are outnumbered by the at-least- two -letter and two-syllable forms, probably even in running text.

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On Jan 29, 2011, at 21:33, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:

Also, wouldn't we care more about syllable usage?  In which case, "and" and "joi" are as good.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
before getting too high on our galxirma do keep in mind that a (probably more) common form of english "and" takes 3 letters in lojban also... {joi}  ;)


On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
 How come Spanish, Polish, Hebrew and lojban use only a single letter
for the concept "and", and English uses three?  Why are we so
inefficient?

 Inquiring minds want to know....
               --gejyspa

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