From cyril.slobin@gmail.com Fri Feb 26 01:35:35 2010 Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NkwbK-0004Be-Ff for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:35:33 -0800 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so1542519wwi.40 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:35:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=uoOiVtzoIY3Mku5i3fDlX3pYJrEUQl1+0PFgnxVLY0w=; b=GiJQg4eqdFyQFn5fqkC+uxonVkGDNHeK6qskQ8jzoYvYLqamFTPrKZaTmJdAK3sgMb P+kxDBJ/cuDsJsROuy29zNeptO7hvPpawc88bCSMIZvgBtUJwxIEahZLFgeyRX+LBzqA VwutCBChUhuCaKwvU5KrdbGINPr206/A190pw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=eTe4x+2ExoCm9DYqlzWCrB3uZLzIpAjrXjGVy1TmH2u03PplBPb7si7UT+8+NdqPxK VANu9g9QV2SKGwpfHPzb6oNAMU+hXXporHeUN0uFpemr1LIhbnCge5wOPnjxYK2lHtxQ MaEHwp3FkbZLMSUNCWKAk0iV9OLONSFiq9MQw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: cyril.slobin@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.90.201 with SMTP id e51mr163950wef.59.1267176908147; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:35:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:35:08 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ba34be82a0d54b83 Message-ID: <3ccac5f11002260135u6b3ed850o97f0b2f30e9fdeba@mail.gmail.com> Subject: 100 years of mnemonics From: Cyril Slobin To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 coi rodo Lurking through the Esperanto Wikipedia, I've read an article about an old (end of XIX century) constructed language Spokil, which, according to it's author, was based on strong usage of mnemonics laws and rules. In particular, first ten numbers in that language was: ba, ge, di, vo, mu, fa, te, ki, po, nu. A century later, someone else has made a language based on mnemonics laws an rules. ;-) We have the same vowel pattern, and two exact matches (three if "no"="nu", and if "nu" means "zero" and not "ten" -- this is not clear from the article cited). The chance of a such coincidence is about 0.1, the exact number is left as an exercise. Just a fun to learn how ideas are re-invented. ;-) -- http://slobin.pp.ru/ `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, `it means just what I choose it to mean'