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Re: [lojban] Random Zipfy question



Dnia niedziela, 30 stycznia 2011 o 04:08:03 Michael Turniansky napisał(a):
>   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?

I say it's a coincidence :) Polish does have "i" for {.e} etc., but other connectives are not as concise - "lub" for {.a}, "albo" for {.onai}, for example. Although there are also "o" ("about"), "z" ("from"/"with"), "w" ("within") and some more.
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