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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:35:04 +0200
From: m.kornig@sondal.net
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary
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I think the lack of consensus for everyday words makes
Lojban rather difficult to learn. Consensus would
probably help to reduce the number of words to learn and
thus accelerate the learning process. And because it's
difficult to learn, few people speak it and there's little
chance to reach "natural" consensus.

Maybe a standard "imposed" dictionary of (say 10000)
common everyday words could solve this dilemma? It would
certainly help Lojban teachers and those who develop
methods, textbooks, e-learning tools, etc.

Martin

Selon Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>:

> On 5/23/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
> > Or is it some intrinsic feature of Lojban itself? Meaning
> > that the Lojban vocabulary is not well defined (yet)?
>
> I think one factor is that Lojban hasn't been used as much as many
> natlangs, so for many words with multiple options, no one option has
> ended up being the most common, by consensus, because people haven't
> spoken thousands and millions of words and hashed out which one they
> "liked best" (because they thought it most memorable, most accurate,
> most useful in terms of place structure, or whatever).