From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 25 05:30:49 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfvAm-00059H-Ku for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:49 -0700 Received: from mail-vw0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfvAj-000571-8m for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:48 -0700 Received: by vws9 with SMTP id 9so2444394vws.25 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=147oUBs/qchf22sfHZwEBnv0H4ry0eq05cd+eo582XQ=; b=eyONhUgR184xMHxnlWL3VJrZAgvVT3jxi4iwBFAk8oMIfDaN7uNz0xbpWHuxLJEHUP 4j130kt/TNamUVbVBxZ9CFdPu8FVxM+UIfDTl/QUPA2i7Hvw7KTE/hCSyVXEEZkb3wUs NV6a1Fyb+Zvrdtw2wICkVDu87cbvI+wPZo1b8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gbkf1coQznTdR5Pm4WGpn5FxWXTJ8Bj/EozW4TGoUCKTnWq3rA7UhC4d0x7Xu0D+hf XT/eKfXEVARPOdasIs0dF9ftcH/FpGm9X0ptOFgjJtvt5UGND3pT3FzjaAX5Da+lQ4fV aZTEhKMAU8/xUqtn+D6mabHqzRlaLZ0EK/kdo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.14.148 with SMTP id g20mr7999976vca.21.1251203439070; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:30:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4A934C50.2060208@kli.org> <95b2fb130908242359i58a0f417j5a460b47587d0384@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: <95b2fb130908250530y39d3b3d8s9dd3af79cf500c10@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: How many possible gismu? From: "H. Felton" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 16017 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: fagricipni@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Arran wrote: > pe'i Given the time frame your thinking of it's more a mute issue. New > sounds will be added to the language maybe within 500 years, if it were to > 'live' so to speak. As soon as I had the actual number of 7429, even though it's only a lower bound, I knew that my fancied future was possible. (Actually, I realized that before I finished calculating it.) I hadn't thought of the possibilty of adding new vowels or consonants to the language, but as you say, in even as short a time as 500 years that's not unreasonable; and that would expand rafsi space as well as gismu space. I'm the kind of person who feels more comfortable when I can put numbers to things, rather than relying on a gut notion; eg, "of course, there's plenty of space for new gismu to grow in to" vs "there's absolutely at least enough gismu space to accomodate another 500% of growth of the gismu set". To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.