[lojban] Re: The x1 of fenki

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/05, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >  But even if
> > we could come up with a rationale in this
> case,
> > another case would come along equally
> mysterious.
> >  Languages get words in spite of someone's
> > rational scheme, not because of it.
> 
> Natlangs, yes. But Lojban did mainly get its
> words because
> of someone's (rational or irrational) scheme.

"Scheme" suggests more thought than can be
evidenced by most of the words here.  Most Lojban
words came from Loglan, the Loglan ones came from
a variety of natural language statistical data
(mainly from English at that: Eaton's, Basic
English, etc.). And, in each case, one man's or a
very few's "intuitions" about place structure. 
So, in general, the natural language mish-mash persevered.