On 9/6/05, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg@gulik.co.nz> wrote:
Was there ever a proposal to have a plain, regular 3-letter system for
everything - gismu, rafsi and cmavo?
Not really within Lojban. The CVCCV and CCVCV forms
for gismu are basically the distinguishing feature of
Lojban/Loglan. But yes, many people have often complained
about the rafsi system and proposed different schemes
to simplify it, without much success.
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.
The problem with that is that you have too little redundancy,
too many words that sound too similar. I think Vorlin uses
CVC words.
mu'o mi'e xorxes