From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Jun 07 06:17:44 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 7 Jun 2002 13:17:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 3648 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2002 13:17:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2002 13:17:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 13:17:44 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA04453; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:16:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200206071316.JAA04453@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:17:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] How many places for lujvo? To: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de (Newton, Philip) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 09:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com ('lojban@yahoogroups.com'), Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de (Newton Philip) In-Reply-To: from "Newton, Philip" at Jun 07, 2002 03:12:49 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Newton, Philip scripsit: > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?lerfu%20pro-sumti%2C%20and%20why%20ko%2 > 7a%20sucks > (should be all in one line; otherwise search for > "lerfu pro-sumti, and why ko'a sucks") > > says > > "gismu have up to five places, and lujvo can have even more" > > I had seen that gisme have up to five, and then wondered why the wiki page > on GnomeNewWords have a couple of lujvo with even more[1]... is there any > upper limit on the number of places allowed? In principle no. > And is there any mechanism analogous to the fa,fe,fi,fo,fu mechanism to get > at places beyond the fifth? Or do I have to put in a bunch of zo'e? (Or > start with "fu" and add "zo'e"s?) "faxixa", "faxire", "faxici", etc. You can use any other FA with the same meaning if you like. > (And is the limit of five places for gismu intentional, or is it just > because noone could think of a good reason to have more? Asked another way, > if a gismy "broda" enters the official language in the future, could it have > more than five places? Or are gismu restricted to five places and only lujvo > (and fu'ivla?) can have more?) New gismu are not now being defined. If one were to be added, I doubt that it would have more than five places, but there is no principled restriction. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_