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[lojban-beginners] Re: anti-Zipfian gismu rant
- To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: anti-Zipfian gismu rant
- From: "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:27:52 -0300
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On 8/9/07, turnip <turnip@bcpl.net> wrote:
>
> The "do they
> speak a language that lojban bases its gismu list on?" criterion seems
> extremely arbitrary.
And besides it is not really followed by Lojban gismu anyway, otherwise
there would be gismu for Colombian for example, since there are more
Colombians than Algerians, and Spanish is one of the base languages.
(There are more Colombians than Argentinians too, and Argentina did
get a gismu.)
mu'o mi'e xorxes