Re: [lojban] Lojban's Biggest Problem or Why Still Nobody Speaks It

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la'o me. MorphemeAddict .me cusku di'e
> I have always assumed that increased fluency will help a speaker both
> create and decipher new words on the fly, especially lujvo. Is this not
> the case?

I would say it is very much the case (I know hundreds of rafsi and can 
make up lujvo on the fly if I want to), but there are way too many words 
missing for that to be practical. I really encourage anyone who thinks 
there is no vocabulary problem to try the experiment I outlined in the 
original post.

And it's not just a technical problem of picking the right rafsi, but 
also a problem between different speakers of agreeing that a particular 
choice is okay. It usually doesn't go that smoothly, and certainly too 
slowly for that to be the optimal way to fix this hole.

There must be a faster way; a bootstrapping phase that adds a few more 
thousand words. Only then is the on-the-fly method really practical, 
because then the new needed coinings per day, month or year are going to 
be much much fewer. Think about how many new words are added to the 
English language dictionary each year; it's not a large number. And how 
often do you see an everyday object and can't name it in English? How 
many of those times do you *invent* a word for it?

mi'e la selpa'i mu'o



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