From rslau@mindspring.com Mon Dec 01 19:13:53 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.57]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AR0yy-0005fq-0a for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:13:48 -0800 Received: from user-v7kak6n.dialup.mindspring.com ([207.69.80.215] helo=sodor.mindspring.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AR0yt-0006Ng-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:13:44 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sodor.mindspring.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8205E420B for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:16:48 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 10/15/1999 with nmh-1.0.4 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Origins of the prim/gismu list In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:06:20 EST." <20031201170620.GA25519@mercury.ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:16:48 -0500 From: Bob Slaughter Message-Id: <20031202031648.8205E420B@sodor.mindspring.com> X-archive-position: 6839 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rslau@mindspring.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > What is known about the origins of the Loglan prim list? Did JCB just > cook up the English words out of his own head, or did he use some other > resources to do so? If you mean the list of English words to make gismu from, one of the sources is a list of 'common' words used in glottochronology. It isn't meant as a list of 'primitive' words, but as a list of words that are in 'all' languages. If I remember this was stated in the 'original' 1976 Loglan materials that I read when I was looking into Loglan back at UF in the 80's or 90's. -- Bob Slaughter, rslau@mindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ North Georgia Modurail: http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ngm/ In which language of the world does the word 'taxi' mean "I cannot drive"? e'osai ko sarji la lojban fo lonu pilno -- http://www.lojban.org/