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Re: [lojban] Gismu with 100% english bias

I'm sorry, but I can't comprehend what problem you could possibly have with the foreignness of words of a /foreign/ language, and I see no benefit in your question. Having gismu with a full English bias would still have the same grammar they do as is, so there would be no benefit there, and no matter how good you got at this "englog", not only would you still have to learn all the Lojban words, you'd also need to /forget/ the "englog" ones, which would make learning Lojban /more/ difficult, not less.

You don't need to know the words to know the grammar, and you don't need to know the grammar to know the words. You do need both to use the language.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:43 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?

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