On Monday, September 1, 2014 4:07:03 AM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:
the wikipedia article about lojban might need a short list of criticism of lojban with links (e.g. to posts in this mailing list). Balanced criticism actually makes languages more popular, so it's advisable to make such a list.
Here are some thoughts:
1. gismu are hard to learn by everyone (as the algorithm mutilates the initial form of words)
2. za'a/ga'a/zgana/zga is hard to remember (would be better to have one root instead of 4)
3. abundance of kafkylerfu
4. still no machine translation
ke'u, links needed, the list might need more items
LOL. Maybe there are other conlang lists that would be better to ask?
My thoughts:
* Somewhat high phonological density --nearly every possible CV and CV'V cmavo is used.
* gismu has no taxonomic (a priori) design at all
* sounds a bit like an Apache Polish American speaking atonal Chinese
Ok. That last one is subjective, but my point is simply that it is unlikely to rank high in a "best sounding" poll.