From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Fri Jul 20 20:22:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 03:22:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 18308 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 03:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 03:22:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 03:22:58 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6L3Mvf27876 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:22:57 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:22:57 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] conversion lujvo In-Reply-To: <114.1f347e3.288a3a7e@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 BestATN@aol.com wrote: > why are lujvo of converted gismu preferred over the bare converted gismu? > e.g. why is [selcasnu] used instead of [se casnu] in the nuzban headings? it > seems to me that [se casnu] should be used, since it's simpler and its > component words are basic ones. Well, I can tell you why I wrote selcasnu on nuzban: 1] I hadn't yet developed my own style wherein I don't use sel-, ter-, vel- and xel- with just a single gismu in lujvo (or at least seriously try to avoid). nuzban was the first non-trivial amount of Lojban I produced. 2] One-worders seemed more appropriate on a news page. - Jay Kominek