From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Sep 08 13:43:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 8 Sep 2001 20:43:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 52061 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2001 20:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Sep 2001 20:43:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.47) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Sep 2001 20:43:48 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.94]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010908204346.XRCS710.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:43:46 +0100 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: Mark on wiki on lerfu Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:43:02 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010907180048.A1107@twcny.rr.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" > From: Rob Speer [mailto:rob@twcny.rr.com] > > This is cool stuff. I'd always wondered why the Book makes such a big deal out > of acronyms and yet nobody really uses them. > > This is rather similar to something I was thinking recently. I believe names > are assignable (I remember someone naming variables with {goi la .ab.} and > {goi la .ac.}) and I came up with an idea to take advantage of the rule about > "la" in names. Since no pause is required before a consonant which begins a > name, and a name can be a single consonant, {la d.} can legitimately be > pronounced {lad.} (which is good, because it's rather tough to > pronounce if you > _do_ put a pause before the d). So now you've got 17 assignable, > single-syllable words which you can use like {goi lab.} Encountering ingenuity of this sort is one of the prime joys of Lojbanism... --And.