Re: [lojban] Cultural fu'ivla: summary and list of the ISO generated ones

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still absolutely, one hundred percent opposed to the idea of having
> 7,000 words with an identical first syllable for related concepts.  This is
> not how language works, and it is not how the human brain works.
> Jorge brought up an example previously of things (something) like "Iceland,
> Swaziland, etc." to point out that words having the same morpheme in the
> same place wasn't an issue.  But, again, this is demonstrably NOT how
> languages work.  Having the same suffix on a word is not the same as having
> the same prefix.  Having the same prefix will make the words VERY hard to
> learn.

Doesn't (Ki)Swahili name all languages with a ki- prefix? (This may be
yet another myth, like that all country names end in "guó" in Chinese,
so I'm just asking, but I tend to be skeptical about claims that this
is "not how the human brain works".)

But if this is demonstrably not how languages work, can you give some
pointers to the demonstration?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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