From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Sep 25 12:34:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 19:33:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 3585 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 19:17:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 19:17:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 19:18:23 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23327; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB0D86F.4020702@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:18:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phma@oltronics.net Cc: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] zipf computations & experimental cmavo References: <01092514090209.01147@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > I agree (e.g. noltrube'a -> noltube, not that I think we should actually > shorten noltrube'a). It is already perfectly legitimate to omit rafsi from long lujvo; The Book already talks about omitting SE from the seltau, and there is also leaving out -kem- and -kez- and other machinery. > [N]ot 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. Then bind it to broda. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel