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On Sunday 13 May 2012 02:01:08 gleki wrote:
> Transliteration *may be* horrid indeed (especially in case of Arabic).
> However, audio recordings can solve this issue. The algorithm was chosen to
> make people from all over the world learn words quicker. If so why limit
> the number of source languages to 6?

Back when they were making the gismu list, they tested various numbers of 
source languages. When they tried more than 8, the algorithm behaved like a 
random-word generator. 6 is the number they found the best for making words 
that are recognizable to a large number of people.

Pierre
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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