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Re: Lojban origins


> Just
>one question however, where do the words originate from?  Are they all 'a
>priori' so to speak?

yes and no.  They were generated algorithmically based on weighted
similarity to the similar-meaning words in the 6 most spoken languages.
The wieghting was based on speaker populations, making most words a kind of
Chinese/English/Hindi mishmash.

Our ftp and web site contain some etymology files.  The June 1960
Scientific American article on "Loglan" (if available in a library there)
will explain the algorithm in more detail, though the languages and
weights have changed since then.

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