From phma@oltronics.net Tue Sep 25 11:26:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 18:26:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 27274 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 18:11:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 18:11:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.243) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 18:11:20 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id E92433C4C1; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:09:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] zipf computations & experimental cmavo Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:09:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092514090209.01147@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Tuesday 25 September 2001 10:57, And Rosta wrote: > There still remains the question of how to zipf down long lujvo whose > syllablecount is excessive relative to their frequency, but Type IV fuhivla > might provide a solution here. I agree (e.g. noltrube'a -> noltube, not that I think we should actually shorten noltrube'a). The hard part (or one of the hard parts) about zipfing lujvo is getting a representative sample of usage. Most of us have occasion to use {la'edi'u} in whatever we write about; not many of us will need {glaukysedyterjo'e}, but if we do need to talk about them, we will use the word a lot in one article. (owlhead joint: a device that can turn through at least a complete circle, but not rotate indefinitely, used for mounting radio antennas and the like) phma