Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Craig scripsit:

> But we copied most of the grammar, no? 

Re-created it, more accurately.  There are Loglan constructions that don't
map into Lojban ones, if only a few, and there are lots of areas
(notably tense and MEX) where Lojban has lots of structure and Lojban
is just "string of cmavo".

> Oskar's proposed new language would
> not have all its words in common with lojban - it couldn't, as they would be
> monosyllables.

If you want Gua\spi, you know where to find it:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/

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