Re: [lojban] language codes was: So what do we say for Swedish?

[Oren <get.oren@gmail.com>]

can we have a pseudocode version of the algorithm, or something similar?

2010/4/3 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>> On Friday 02 April 2010 14:20:28 Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>> According to Wikipedia, they are all in use:
>>>
>>> aaa: Ghotuo
>>> aab: Alumu-Tesu
>>> aba: Abé
>>> abb: Bankon
>>> baa: Babatana
>>> bab: Bainouk-Gunyuño
>>> bba: Baatonum
>>> bbb: Barai
>>>
>>> I propose those eight be used as test cases.
>>
>> I've never heard of any of those languages, except Ghotuo which I found when
>> looking at template aaa on Wiktionary, and I think that if you run this
>> nunfu'ivlazba to completion, you're going to end up with a humongous list
>> that's as desuet as a dule of doves.
>
> Well, the nice thing about my algorithm is that you don't really need
> to make any actual list. You just know that for any three letter
> language code, there is a fu'ivla there ready to be used that goes
> with that code. You don't create it until you want to use it.
>
>> I do not see a need for coining a type-4 or even type-3 fu'ivla for Baatonum
>> or Babatana until some Lojbanist is interested in those languages. Leave them
>> at type 1.
>
> You can think of "banbubu'a" not as meaning "x1 is Baatonum" but
> rather as meaning "x1 is the language with ISO-code 'bba'".
>
> Then if Baatonum for some reason became a hosehold word in
> Lojbanistan, and people found "banbubu'a" too cumbersome, a more
> friendly name could be coined.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
>
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