From cowan@ccil.org Sat Mar 31 22:19:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_0_1); 1 Apr 2001 06:19:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 30039 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2001 06:19:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Apr 2001 06:19:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Apr 2001 07:20:48 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14jbEh-0000nG-00; Sun, 01 Apr 2001 01:21:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Why {selbroda}? In-Reply-To: <20010401000027.A15664@twcny.rr.com> from Rob Speer at "Apr 1, 2001 00:00:27 am" To: rob@twcny.rr.com Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 01:21:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Rob Speer scripsit: > 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. Well, "selbri" is shorter than "se bridi", though it means the same: but more importantly, the meaning is packaged up as a word. You can memorize "selbri", whereas "se bridi" has to be worked out. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter