From cowan@ccil.org Sat Dec 23 21:02:19 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 24 Dec 2000 05:02:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 49428 invoked from network); 24 Dec 2000 05:02:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Dec 2000 05:02:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 24 Dec 2000 06:03:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA00996; Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:30:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:30:10 -0500 (EST) To: Robert LeChevalier Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Cultural fu'ivla In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001223190300.00b6f860@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > 2) By definition, fu'ivla space is all valid brivla space that is not > otherwise invalidated by the more important gismu and lujvo forms. Being > defined only by exception, there really aren't any "rules" for fu'ivla that > can be changed. Almost. Fu'ivla cannot contain "y", so the word "rafyfufi", for example, is part of brivla space, but outside gismu, lujvo, and fu'ivla space. The same is true for the proposed fu'ivla lujvo: they do not meet the criteria for either standard fu'ivla or standard lujvo. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter