[lojban] Re: minimal lojban

[Michael van der Gulik <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

xah lee wrote:

> is there a subset of lojban that's minimal and doesn't contain things 
> like tanru inversions or sumti order rearrangements etc?
>  
Hey, that was my idea! Thief! :-). (Philosophical question: could you 
steal another persons idea? Is stealing only wrong because you're 
depriving somebody else of what you've taken?)

A minimal Lojban would be good for learning Lojban. Specifically, I'm 
interested in writing a "Lojban for beginners" in minimal lojban, so 
that even non-English speakers can learn the language. It would also 
have a much smaller learning curve that full-blown Lojban, meaning a 
lower learning-curve-type-barrier-thing for prospective speakers.

For a vocabulary, you could use Robin's SuperMemo lists (visit the wiki 
on lojban.org) and chop them off at a certain point. His lists (which I 
must give much merit to) are ordered by word frequencies, so the more 
common words start at the beginning.

Michael.