Although it is inappropriate to mention to someone just starting on Lojban, there is the developing Xorban over on engelang group, which, so far, has very few selma'o and seems set up to avoid the need for many of the seemingly redundant ones in Lojban.
Sent from my iPad I recall reading once a post by xorxes I think, reducing the selma'o into a handful, although if I recall correctly, it was pretty drastic.
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On 19 September 2012 15:43, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am 19.09.2012 20:59, schrieb MorphemeAddict:
Looking at the cloud of selma'o (grammatical classes) at vlasisku makes me wonder. Is there any way to drastically reduce the number of selma'o?
There are some ways to reduce it a little bit, for example merging lots of connective selma'o (JOI, JA, VUhU) and removing some "unncessary" ones like CAI and NAI and RAhO and moving them all to UI etc. But you'd still end up with a high number of selma'o I think. Another way to get rid of a lot of selma'o is to use grammatical tone, like gua\spi. That language only has five selma'o.
This tinkering with the selma'o would result in an insignificant reduction in their number. Gua\spi may get by with only five 'selma'o', but it's not just because it uses tones.
The large number of Lojban selma'o strikes me as way overblown.
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