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100 years of mnemonics
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- Subject: 100 years of mnemonics
- From: Cyril Slobin <cyril@slobin.pp.ru>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:35:08 +0300
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coi rodo
Lurking through the Esperanto Wikipedia, I've read an article about an
old (end of XIX century) constructed language Spokil, which, according
to it's author, was based on strong usage of mnemonics laws and rules.
In particular, first ten numbers in that language was:
ba, ge, di, vo, mu, fa, te, ki, po, nu.
A century later, someone else has made a language based on mnemonics
laws an rules. ;-) We have the same vowel pattern, and two exact
matches (three if "no"="nu", and if "nu" means "zero" and not "ten" --
this is not clear from the article cited). The chance of a such
coincidence is about 0.1, the exact number is left as an exercise.
Just a fun to learn how ideas are re-invented. ;-)
--
http://slobin.pp.ru/ `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<cyril@slobin.pp.ru> `it means just what I choose it to mean'