Re: [lojban] Re: Transliterations survey

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jay Kominek wrote:

> In a Japanese dictionary of ~58k words, 3629 start with 'h'. (6.18%)
>
> Of those 3629 words, there are 1059 words where, if you remove the 'h',
> the newly created word is in the dictionary.
>
> So dropping the 'h' leaves you with a ~33% chance of namespace collision.



Facts like this scare me when I consider the work involved in discovering
such analogous facts for all other languages, in preparation for deciding
how to map their sounds into Lojban!




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