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[lojban] danfu dandu danlu
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- Subject: [lojban] danfu dandu danlu
- From: Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:59:18 -0400
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While studying vocab I noticed the existence of {danfu}, {dandu}, and {danlu}. When the LLG was putting lojban together was there no intention of making the different words sound distinctive? I know that one of the main reasons for lojban's split from loglan was that users wanted a stable spoken logical language. Given that, I'm surprise that "easy to distinguish words in a noisy environment" wasn't one of the goals of lojban. One of the more annoying things about english for me is that so many words sound similar.
Maybe instead of choosing gismu based on some (rarely helpful) metric of how much the common languages used particular letters, maybe if we/they had chosen to spread the phonemes out with as wide of a distribution possible that would have been more useful (as well as screw up any potential for poetry I guess).
Clearly it is way to late in the game to change the gismu. I bring this up only because I'm curious if the LLG had considered this.