[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojsk and Voksigid

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/4/07, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > http://www.netgotham.com/lojsk
>
> I've never heard of this either.  It seems vaguely interesting.  I
> definately like the idea of single-syllable words.  The really
> serious problem is that Lojsk is going to be even more sensitive to
> noisy environments than Lojban is, if that's possible.  The n/6
> distinction seems ill-advised, to start with.

What's worse is that they seem to have a philosophical language type of
vocabulary, at least for some words, where words with similar meanings
sound very similar. They went berzerk with the "spacial" and "temporal"
words.

> I note that eir solution to cmene is broken:
> http://www.netgotham.com/lojsk_cmen.html.  Ey can't have cmen with
> cm_ or tlan in them, but ey doesn't seem to have noticed this.

It seems what they can't have is .ii, but cm_ and tlan seem to be ok.
It is not clear whether they allow pauses in the middle of a cmen
If they don't they are ok.

But they do need to tell "rifs fas" apart from "rif sfas" for example, so
I don't know that they can really claim self segregating morphology
unless they expect pauses between every pair of words.

mu'o mi'e xorxes