The cmavo space is essentially full, so has the minimum distinction and thus the maximal possibilities for confusion. It is helped only by a slight attempt to put very similar words in radically different categories, so unlikely to occur in the same environment. The attempts at spreading built into the algorithm were not well thought through (though better than JCB's none). On the other hand, getting 1400 gismu-shaped strings that are maximally distinct is something akin to the three-body problem, where every new datum forces reconfiguration of all those already aboard. So, talk louder, repeat yourself, say it in different words, etc. Noisy channels are the problem for every medium and every language.
From: Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Thu, October 22, 2009 4:16:00 PM
Subject: [lojban] Re: danfu dandu danlu
I see. I haven't read chapter 4 in quite some time. Maybe I should go back over it again. I guess it can't be helped that some words will sound similar (I'm not even going to bring up similarity of cmavo).
Another interesting one I've been tripped up on: cikre, ckire. They don't so much sound the same as much as they look the same.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Minimiscience
<minimiscience@gmail.com> wrote:
de'i li 22 pi'e 10 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> 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?
.skamyxatra
There was an intention, and Lojban was in fact designed so that the {gismu}
sound distinctive, just not (apparently) by your personal standards of
"distinctive." (Also, you missed "{dansu}.") See item 4 of the {gismu}
creation algorithm in section 4.14 of the CLL for more information.
mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
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