From phma@webjockey.net Tue Nov 19 04:30:52 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 19 Nov 2002 12:30:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 54207 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2002 12:30:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Nov 2002 12:30:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2002 12:30:51 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18E7Wl-0006Mf-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:30:51 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18E7Wg-0006MN-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:30:46 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from 208-150-110-21-adsl.precisionet.net ([208.150.110.21] helo=neofelis.ixazon.lan) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18E7Wb-0006MD-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:30:42 -0800 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 94BD03C479; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:30:10 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Let's be friends Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:30:09 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20021116225301.QCGE4359.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@Savv> <1037700037.9323.5.camel@caesar.safelogic.se> <3DDA2A13.7020302@bilkent.edu.tr> In-Reply-To: <3DDA2A13.7020302@bilkent.edu.tr> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0211190730090E.01930@neofelis> X-archive-position: 2637 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Tuesday 19 November 2002 07:09, robin wrote: li'o > I rather like the practice of using the combining form for the first > element and the full gismu for the second, so that people who have a > grasp of the gismu list but can't be bothered to learn the combining > forms can at least get an idea of what the word is about. For example, > many years back I coined "kurmikce" for "nurse". I could have used > "kurmi'e", but apart from the fact that I like the sound of "kurmikce", > it's easier to guess. Sometimes the gismu is misleading. For instance, latfi'e and mlafi'e are fish, but xajyfi'e isn't, so you probably don't want to say "xajyfinpe". phma