[lojban] Re: Origins of the prim/gismu list

[Bob Slaughter <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> What is known about the origins of the Loglan prim list?  Did JCB just
> cook up the English words out of his own head, or did he use some other
> resources to do so?

If you mean the list of English words to make gismu from, one of the sources 
is a list of 'common' words used in glottochronology. It isn't meant as a list 
of 'primitive' words, but as a list of words that are in 'all' languages. If I 
remember this was stated in the 'original' 1976 Loglan materials that I read 
when I was looking into Loglan back at UF in the 80's or 90's.


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