[lojban] [Fwd: Re: Projects]

[xod <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

reverendzow writes, and I forward:



--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, xod <xod@t...> wrote:
> reverendzow wrote:
>
> >What's a BPFK?  I think such a change -could- happen, but to do 
so, 
> >the following would have to occur:  Someone creates a new Lojban 
> >vocabulary that has major improvements over the current one 
(although 
> >this is not necessarily possible), then the existing (and 
relatively 
> >small as I understand it) Lojban community would need to be 
convinced 
> >that this new vocabulary was worth the work in switching.  $0.02
> >  
> >
>
>
> I'm imagining a goulash containing Esperantoid vocabulary 
(targetting
> your preferred language group) and Lojbanic grammar. Do you expect 
this
> would gain more traction than Esperanto, or would that level of 
success
> satisfy you?

Yeep!  This is not the direction I want to go at all.  The first 
thing to look into is the phonetic inventory - what sounds most 
people in the world can produce/distinguish, including computers' 
ability to recognize/distinguish these sounds.  This would then be 
followed by a study of the most efficient methods of preventing vocal 
confusion (i.e., making word boundaries obvious), combined with a 
method of making the most commonly-used/useful words the shortest.  
Then we could generate the new vocabulary.