From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Aug 07 11:17:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 7 Aug 2001 18:17:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 509 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2001 18:15:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Aug 2001 18:15:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2001 18:15:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f77IFr706419 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Transliterations survey In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jay Kominek wrote: > In a Japanese dictionary of ~58k words, 3629 start with 'h'. (6.18%) > > Of those 3629 words, there are 1059 words where, if you remove the 'h', > the newly created word is in the dictionary. > > So dropping the 'h' leaves you with a ~33% chance of namespace collision. Facts like this scare me when I consider the work involved in discovering such analogous facts for all other languages, in preparation for deciding how to map their sounds into Lojban! ----- "I have never been active in politics or in any act against occupation, but the way the soldiers killed Mizyed has filled me with hatred and anger. Now I'm ready to carry out a suicide attack inside Israel," one of the witnesses said.