From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Oct 26 15:32:50 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlXjV-0001L3-SI for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:32:50 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IlXjT-0001Ku-Nb for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:32:49 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352C1CE4B1 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:32:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:32:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <821531.97363.qm@web27709.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <975a94850710261310y7e2586d4p60cc69af7881a9f8@mail.gmail.com> <2204fa080710261503ue4df8cbnab58026306087816@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2204fa080710261503ue4df8cbnab58026306087816@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710261832.41499.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5694 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Friday 26 October 2007 18:03, Jared Angell wrote: > Alternatively perhaps Lojban should not have been made in this way. > Perhaps using Esperanto, English, Latin, Japanese or perhaps a mixture of > them all to get root (irrespective of how difficult it would have made some > word formation to say the human mind tends to fix these things with > ::shutter:: irregularities - which are going to happen in Lojban if people > actually ever get around to speaking it in large masses) words would have > been better than using a really cool computer algorithm that derived root > from the most widely spoken languages (HOW IN THE HELL DID HINDI GET LEFT > OFF THAT LIST, BTW????). It didn't. Hindi and Urdu were counted together. The six languages (not necessarily in order) are English, Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. Some Spanish words with "ue" were used with "o" instead (es:puerta=pt:porta=fr:porte), and most of the Chinese "o"s were used as "e". Pierre