[lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 26 October 2007 18:03, Jared Angell wrote:
> Alternatively perhaps Lojban should not have been made in this way. 
> Perhaps using Esperanto, English, Latin, Japanese or perhaps a mixture of
> them all to get root (irrespective of how difficult it would have made some
> word formation to say the human mind tends to fix these things with
> ::shutter:: irregularities - which are going to happen in Lojban if people
> actually ever get around to speaking it in large masses) words would have
> been better than using a really cool computer algorithm that derived root
> from the most widely spoken languages (HOW IN THE HELL DID HINDI GET LEFT
> OFF THAT LIST, BTW????).

It didn't. Hindi and Urdu were counted together.

The six languages (not necessarily in order) are English, Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, 
Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. Some Spanish words with "ue" were used with "o" 
instead (es:puerta=pt:porta=fr:porte), and most of the Chinese "o"s were used 
as "e".

Pierre