[lojban-beginners] three-letter gismu?

[Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz>]

coi rodo.

This is an idea I had. I'm not proposing anything nor am I going to run 
off and design my own language quite yet :-).

One of the weak points of lojban in my eyes is that there are 5-letter 
gismu, 4 and 3-letter rafsi based on those gismu, and then 2 or 3-letter 
cmavo. Many of the cmavo are the same as some of the rafsi, and you need 
to learn not only all the gismu but also their rafsi versions. It's 
quite an irregular system.

Was there ever a proposal to have a plain, regular 3-letter system for 
everything - gismu, rafsi and cmavo? There should be enough words - take 
naïvely for example only CVC combinations (consonent-vowel-consonent) - 
assuming we use, say, 20 consonents and 5 vowels, we could form a 
vocabulary of 20*5*20 = 2000 words. This compares well to lojban's 1400 
or so gismu and however many cmavo.

This way, you could have exactly the same words for gismu and rafsi, and 
sentences would always be written in 3-letter blocks.

Michael.