From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Jan 31 15:17:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 31 Jan 2001 23:17:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 37241 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2001 23:12:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Jan 2001 23:12:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jan 2001 23:12:22 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id SAA24932; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:17:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:17:54 -0500 To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] cmavo frequency? Message-ID: <20010131181754.D20123@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pycyn@aol.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:59:10PM -0500 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:59:10PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/31/2001 4:33:01 PM Central Standard Time, > rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca writes: > > > > > Subj: [lojban] cmavo frequency? > > Date: 1/31/2001 4:33:01 PM Central Standard Time > > From: rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell) > > To: lojban@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > > > > Is there a list of cmavo usage frequency, the way the gismu file has > > frequency in it? > > > > > > I doubt it. The frequency for the gismu is for the source words, not the > gismu themselves (I think) Since the most frequent word is 'sumti', I think you're wrong there. 8) > and the correlation between cmavo and anything in source langauges is > pretty iffy (not that that between gismu and anything in the sources > is that clearcut). I don't think really accurate frequencies *in > Lojban* are possible yet, given the instability of the corpus -- and > its reliance on English et al. Since this is just for flashcarding, it's a start. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP