From phma@oltronics.net Sat Mar 31 21:11:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_0_1); 1 Apr 2001 05:11:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 64427 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2001 05:11:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Apr 2001 05:11:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.7) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Apr 2001 06:12:59 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 62B393C55E; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:11:38 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Why {selbroda}? Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:06:45 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010401000027.A15664@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010401000027.A15664@twcny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0104010011370M.00929@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, Rob Speer wrote: >The discussion about {nalmorji} brought up something that's been bothering me. >Why do we use words like {selbroda} at all in Lojban? Doesn't it mean exactly >the same as {se broda}? {se broda} has the same number of syllables and one >less consonant to pronounce as well. Some gismu have CVV or CCV rafsi, in which case (except for words like selyli'e) the lujvo is shorter. For instance, selge'u, selmri, selbre, selbri. phma