From phma@oltronics.net Fri Apr 27 21:30:44 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 28 Apr 2001 04:30:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 92397 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2001 04:30:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Apr 2001 04:30:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.41) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Apr 2001 04:30:40 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 03C523C602; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:07:27 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Value Yourself , Subject: Re: [lojban] Chemistry Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:59:10 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042800072700.01263@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Value Yourself wrote: >How about a chemical cmavo prefix (xui')? that prefixes all your >chemical-specific cmavo? Too narrow a slice of cmavo space. The right length for these seems to be CVV'V or CV'VV, and there are only five possible xui'V cmavo. Actually, on checking with vlatai, there are no such cmavo. The refgram confirms this: VV in a cmavo is ai, ei, oi, or au, or a pair with an apostrophe. ui occurs only in ui itself and in cmene. phma