From brion@pobox.com Wed Aug 22 16:43:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: brion@pobox.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 22 Aug 2001 23:43:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 87139 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 23:43:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2001 23:43:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.74) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 23:43:20 -0000 Received: from there (209-162-15-78.thegrid.net [209.162.15.78]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09465 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108222343.QAA09465@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: sts- [was: RE: [lojban] Brochure updates Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:44:51 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Brion L. VIBBER" Jorge Llambias wrote: > la maikl cusku di'e > > >i gave up esperanto because i couldn't say STS- > > STS is a legal cluster in Lojban: e.g. xastsani > (stsi'i is a valid fu'ivla). > > It also occurs in English: e.g. "bestseller". > > Hopefully you won't give up these two too! Surely also the plural of any word ending in "st"? Beasts, feasts, fests, breasts, guests, bequests, quests, forests... -- brion vibber (brion@pobox.com / vibber@usc.edu)