Received: from bay0-omc2-s11.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.190.86]:32593) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R7VV0-0005xe-1b for president@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:54:46 -0700 Received: from BAY161-W31 ([65.54.190.125]) by bay0-omc2-s11.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:54:39 -0700 Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_814cdd89-8a70-4e49-a9a4-7ec74e49a47a_" X-Originating-IP: [99.65.136.40] From: Darian Lambert To: Subject: unusual question Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:54:40 -0700 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2011 16:54:39.0713 (UTC) FILETIME=[A6393D10:01CC7ADA] X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / --_814cdd89-8a70-4e49-a9a4-7ec74e49a47a_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Robert=2C I have a rather simple but a possibly unusual question=2C if I may. I know that you guys used only a handful of languages as a basis for develo= ping Lojban but I have been thinking and doing some digging. I want to see = if I can do an experiment where I use a similar method for word creation as= Lojban but use between 40 and 50 of the world's top languages as sources.= =20 As I said I did some digging already online and in dictionaries and I see t= hat the counterpart to each word in all the 40 or 50 languages are all over= the place. They have nothing in common except within similar language fami= lies. So=2C could the Lojban algorithm or some kind of variation of it be u= sed to create words from this expanded set of languages=2C or would I need = to create an entirely new algorithm or maybe even a computer program? If I remember correctly I read somewhere that the same gismu algorithm coul= d have been used or could be used with as large a language pool as one want= s. Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Best=2C Darian = --_814cdd89-8a70-4e49-a9a4-7ec74e49a47a_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Robert=2C

I have a rather simple but a possibly unusual quest= ion=2C if I may.

I know that you guys used only a handful of languag= es as a basis for developing Lojban but I have been thinking and doing some= digging. I want to see if I can do an experiment where I use a similar met= hod for word creation as Lojban but use between 40 and 50 of the world's to= p languages as sources.

As I said I did some digging already online= and in dictionaries and I see that the counterpart to each word in all the= 40 or 50 languages are all over the place. They have nothing in common exc= ept within similar language families. So=2C could the Lojban algorithm or s= ome kind of variation of it be used to create words from this expanded set = of languages=2C or would I need to create an entirely new algorithm or mayb= e even a computer program?

If I remember correctly I read somewhere = that the same gismu algorithm could have been used or could be used with as= large a language pool as one wants. Your thoughts on this would be greatly= appreciated.

Best=2C

Darian

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