[lojban] Re: Philosophical differences.

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

mi'e la stela selckiku

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM, John E Clifford<kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> As for Lojban --again because of its small base -- new words are relatively infrequent
> (as new text is) and any attempt to officially add a new word is -- if anyone notices --
> subjected to a review of the sort noted (see frabi and barfi), which rarely happens in
> English and, when it does, is usually after the word has disappeared.


This used to be true but I don't believe it is anymore.  There's a lot
of freeform conversation in Lojban these days, and a lot of words are
made up all the time.  There are always faddish silly words.  Almost
all of them do conform somewhat to the word-building rules (the only
exception I can think of being the brief fad of saying
"cccccccccccccoi"), but an unreasonable number of them are "xargismu"
(as it's in style to say these days!)-- I think just because people
get used to gismu-shape as the-shape-of-a-Lojban-word.  Anyway it's
clear to me that Lojban has just the same distinction now as any
language between its official and its living form.


> Does anyone feel the need to learn all the words of Lojban?


I would like to learn all the words of Lojban!  I'm fascinated by old
strange lujvo and fu'ivla.  The only reason I'm trying to learn every
single one of the gismu is for completeness, though.  A lot of the
gismu are the most obscure words in Lojban.  I'm not sure that every
gismu has been used a single time.


mu'o


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