[lojban] eastern languages

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

I wonder to what extent eastern languages are more consistent and
simple to learn that English, and whether that has played a minor role
in the relatively low representation of those languages in the Lojban
community. (The major role, of course, being that Lojban wasn't
developed in Japan or India and has little-to-no foreign language
learning or reference material.)

I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe a
cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as much
as a cumbersome grammar does. And other eastern countries have
reformed orthographies or (maybe?) haven't used ideographs in
centuries or more. But I don't really know much about those.

Chris Capel
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