From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Dec 18 12:20:00 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 18 Dec 2000 20:19:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 97248 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2000 20:19:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Dec 2000 20:19:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Dec 2000 20:19:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBIKJt400320 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:19:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:19:55 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Cultural fu'ivla In-Reply-To: <00121809160513.01286@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself I actually really don't mind prefixing kuln and natm, to distinguish between the two, and to give the listener a clue that an unfamiliar word is about to arrive. I am sure there will be many of these that are rarely used, and it is reasonable to expect someone to be able to figure it out without a clue? How often do I speak of Moldova? On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote: > >Is this stuff still considered baselined? In which case Pierre's list > >will need transforming into this format. If it's not considered to be > >current Lojban any more I'd like to know, as I was going to be building > >support for this into the next release of jbofi'e (in terms of the > >algorithm to split lujvo into rafsi at least). Clearly this might save > >me some work :-) > > According to 4.16, it's not baselined, it's an experimental proposal. I don't > agree with reserving CCVVCV for cultural fu'ivla, or making all cultural > fu'ivla be of that form, since most of them don't fit into that form. I think > it should be just another fu'ivla tarmi. > > As to rafsi fu'ivla, I don't see why a fu'ivla couldn't fall at the end of a > lujvo, as long as the rafsi preceding it forces the insertion of a 'y' by the > rules. If you can come up with a counterexample, please let me know; maybe it > means that the rules for fu'ivla should be restricted. > > phma > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com > ----- And if a cat needed a hat? Free enterprise is there for that.