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

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:


> My point with starting everything with some form of "bang" means that your
> brain will not be able to do anything at all to get any closer to what you
> were trying to say.  Plus, it won't help me if we're in a loud room and I
> don't quite here what you said.  If the first element was meaningful with a
> system, then it can help in both of those ways.
>

  Speaking as a professional Scrabble® player, there are 4012 words
legal in North American/Israeli/Malaysian English Scrabble that all
start with UN-. (5259 in other countries).  The vast majority mean
"the opposite of (the rest of this word)".  So the same argument can
be brought to bear about English.  Seems to me that languages *do*
work that way, in broad strokes.

                --gejyspa, still trying valiantly to plough through
the lojban email backlog.  Still haven't gotten to the thread with
Robin's essay link, yet.

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