Date:         Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:41:28 -0400
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Subject:      Re: Scrabble program for Lojban
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>Hope this is of interest - if you come up with a better lexicon file please
>let me know!

I would add any words you are missing that are in the lojban dictionary
fileon the web/FTP site.  There are lujvo that have been coined and defined
but not yet used (especially the se/te compounds of the gismu).

It should be possible to come up with better scrabble letter frequencies
using the word frequency data.  Those old numbers were made from a MUCH older
and smaller wordlist.  I would presume that you would base letter frequencies
on the words themselves, not weighted by their frequency.  Just count all the
a's, b's, c's. etc.  I would omit the same sections of the wordlist for this
count.

After you do any more fiddling you want to do, I would like to add this to
the FTP site. Let me know if and when.

lojbab
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