On Sunday, August 24, 2014 12:40:19 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:
"However, they are there from the gismu creation process to provide mnemonic assistance. How quickly would you learn banguwithout the angu of the English (pronounced languedj)? Would a Chinese speaker learn vanju as easily without the chinese "jiu" (pronounced [dziou]) being the entire second syllable?"
I can't really take this explanation seriously. I personally think this one place Logan/Lojban failed. Creating words by statistically mixing the letters of words from other languages just ends up creating words that on the whole no one recognizes.