I've often wondered about that for loCCan. Using a strategy of maximal difference and only secondly trying to use the common natlang words as a basis. It seems like having a languages words all be as distinct from each other as possible would be useful for making it maximally easy to pick out a speach stream in a crowded party situation (because we know how frequently jbopre are in crowded parties talking lojban zo'o)
I'll be honast (honest?), there are only a handful of gismu that I thought "oh yeah, that's kind of like X in my natlang". I really wonder if lojban chose the right strategy for gismu creation :(
On Sep 20, 2010 2:18 PM, "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> 2010/9/20 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
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>> You missed the ratcu/ractu variety, so more than 20.
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> Oops, yes. Typo in the regular _expression_. Add these 24 further pairs:
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> bajra barja
> balni banli
> berti betri
> canti catni
> cedra cerda
> danti datni
> darsi dasri
> festi fetsi
> ganra garna
> janta jatna
> kabri karbi
> kalri karli
> kufra kurfa
> nanvi navni
> pulni punli
> racli ralci
> ractu ratcu
> ranti ratni
> rilti ritli
> rinsa risna
> sacki sakci
> sodva sovda
> tabno tanbo
> tinsa tisna
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