Re: [lojban] Re: flashcards?

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

Good one! (even allowing for polysyllabic words)

--- robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote:

> Chris Capel wrote:
> > On 6/26/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
> >> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Paul Vigo wrote:
> >> > With
> >> > lojban I think this may be particularly useful as many of the gismu
> >> > are complex (place structure variations can make a familiar seeming
> >> > word suddenly novel again) and many look pretty much the same
> >> > (cvccv / ccvcv) so are easy to confuse with other gismu when
> >> > unfamiliar.
> >>
> >> On the topic of gismu looking simmilar, how much work would be
> >> involved in making a list of gismu that only differ by vowels? I've
> >> found a few pairs like {ciska} and {cusku} that I repeatedly have to
> >> look up to keep apart, but I'm not sure how many there are total.
> >
> > Are there any natlangs that pack words more tightly into phonetic
> > space than Lojban?
> >
> Chinese?
> 
> robin.tr
> 
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