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Re: [lojban] Gismu with 100% english bias



On 06/25/2012 11:43 PM, hellznrg@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone, sorry if this question has been asked before, and if so, if 
> you could provide a link or two that would be great. I tried looking on 
> google, but not quite sure how to search for this..
> 
> My question is, is it possible to produce a set of gismu (root words) with 
> a 100% bias to english? (perhaps calling the resulting Lojban variant 
> "englog" or "englan" or something like that. I tried learning lojban before 
> but I just got put off by the foreignness of the words. Perhaps it may be 
> that learning the grammar first using english gismu would be much easier 
> than just jumping in the deep end. This may give rise to many dialects (the 
> chinese may want their variant of lojban having gismu 100% biased to 
> chinese), but perhaps this is not a bad thing?

I think that applying lojban grammar to English vocabulary would be
confusing. Let's try it and find out.

i expect the event the event the is-grammar of the-named lojban combine
the is-word of {fi} the-named english-language {kei} confuse.
[suggestion] [imperative] we experiment something-about
previous-sentence with-motive the event we learn.

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