From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Wed May 26 19:27:30 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 26 May 1993 14:29:33 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0017; Wed, 26 May 93 14:27:35 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9590; Wed, 26 May 93 14:15:35 EDT Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 18:27:30 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: Mr Andrew Rosta Subject: Re: Cowan on morphology X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET, conlang@diku.dk, Chris Handley To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 24 May 93 13:37:31 Y.) <9305240226.AA133624@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> Status: O X-Status: Message-ID: <0_QYqg12wgI.A.D1H.2z0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Chris writes: > After some 'discussion' between And and lojbab, lojbab wrote: [I hope the scarequotes aren't really necessary.] > > Loglan pre-GMR was very much like what you suggest would be better - > >allowing jbama and klama to both be represented by -ama in a compound. It > >was not as you say - people had to memorize every word they wanted to use, > >and to rely on the dictionary for every little thing they did. > > > Apart from anything else, recognising a word from its ending is phenomenally > difficult. If you don't believe me, try a little test. Take twenty words at > random (all about the same length) and divide them into two groups. For one > group supply a definition and the initial syllable, for the other group > supply a definition and the last syllable. Now test your friends and see how > many they get right. I know what I expect, I would like tio see what results > you get. (a) I wasn't advocating this system. I agree word-beginnings are easier to recognize. (b) even this system wold be more learnable than present lojban rafsi. --- And