[lojban] Re: How many possible gismu?

["H. Felton" <fagricipni@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Arran<arran4@gmail.com> wrote:
> pe'i Given the time frame your thinking of it's more a mute issue. New
> sounds will be added to the language maybe within 500 years, if it were to
> 'live' so to speak.

As soon as I had the actual number of 7429, even though it's only a
lower bound, I knew that my fancied future was possible.  (Actually,
I realized that before I finished calculating it.)  I hadn't thought
of the possibilty of adding new vowels or consonants to the language,
but as you say, in even as short a time as 500 years that's not
unreasonable; and that would expand rafsi space as well as gismu
space.

I'm the kind of person who feels more comfortable when I can put
numbers to things, rather than relying on a gut notion; eg, "of
course, there's plenty of space for new gismu to grow in to" vs
"there's absolutely at least enough gismu space to accomodate another
500% of growth of the gismu set".


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