From phma@webjockey.net Sat Aug 31 16:08:46 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 31 Aug 2002 23:08:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 47117 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2002 23:08:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Aug 2002 23:08:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Aug 2002 23:08:45 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id CC1C23C477; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:08:40 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words? Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:08:38 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0208311908380E.03340@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Saturday 31 August 2002 18:40, Jorge Llambias wrote: > I don't know how zei-lujvo should be treated. I would say treat > each component as a separate word, so in that example there would > be an entry for ctelr and one for kemxasybakni. (Though I would think > {ctelr zei xasybakni} should suffice in this case.) > If {kemxasybakni} is only used in a zei-lujvo, that's what its > definition would say. ctelr zei xasybakni is a Steller-sea cow, as opposed to a Steller sea-cow. I don't know what a Steller-sea cow would be, besides a Steller sea-cow, but it was a sea-cow, not a cow. > Hopefully the total number of zei-lujvo in the dictionary will be > countable with the fingers of one hand... Maybe, maybe not. I think one can come up with more than 31 combinations in which a lujvo is modified by a name, and then there are words like {pavyterykotledona} which currently can be entered only in zei-form. phma