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A sibling of Lojban, much more radically changed from the original ((Loglan)).
- [http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi|Here] is various useful documentation, and ((critique of -gua!spi|here)) is ((John Cowan|my)) critique of the language from a Lojban viewpoint.
+ [http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi|Here] is various useful documentation, and ((critique of Gua\spi|here)) is ((John Cowan|my)) critique of the language from a Lojban viewpoint.<br />Previous spelling -gua!spi.<br /><br />Gua\spi is a descendent of Lojban and Loglan which uses Chinese-like tones to mark grammatical structure, developed by Jim Carter. By using tones instead of structure words, and cutting predicates from two to one syllable, Carter has fixed a minor flaw in Gua\spi's predecessors – they take a lot of syllables to say things, albeit at the expense of adding tone, which is a far from universal language trait.

Note that jimc is now using the spelling ''Gua\spi'', which is more useful, since ''\'' represents falling tone more iconically than ''!'' did.




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A sibling of Lojban, much more radically changed from the original ((Loglan)).
[http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi|Here] is various useful documentation, and ((critique of Gua\spi|here)) is ((John Cowan|my)) critique of the language from a Lojban viewpoint.
Previous spelling -gua!spi.

Gua\spi is a descendent of Lojban and Loglan which uses Chinese-like tones to mark grammatical structure, developed by Jim Carter. By using tones instead of structure words, and cutting predicates from two to one syllable, Carter has fixed a minor flaw in Gua\spi's predecessors – they take a lot of syllables to say things, albeit at the expense of adding tone, which is a far from universal language trait.

Note that jimc is now using the spelling ''Gua\spi'', which is more useful, since ''\'' represents falling tone more iconically than ''!'' did.

''I got into Lojban from -gua!spi, probably the only person who ever has. --((John Cowan))''
''I can't quite claim the same, but I think I ftp-ed info on ((Loglan)) and
-gua!spi from ((Mark Shoulson))'s old ((Planned Language Server)) before I knew
of Lojban.'' --((And))

Why isn't anybody working with this anymore?
* Nobody ever was except Jim Carter, and he's been too busy for the last N years.
**coi doi! mi'e bobgrif I have been trying to put together a small practical list of words and phrases based on the booklets given US soldiers in WWII.  I am using the word-lists and phrase-lists from the Malay and Cantonese booklets as my source.  I hope (Insha'allah) to be finished (alpha version 1.0) within the next few months (can only work on it sporadically).  When I'm finished, I intend to send J Carter a copy for response/correction.  If there's anyone else here who would like a preliminary copy, please email me (MugglesNSquibs@msn.com).  mu'omi'e bobgrif

mi krici le du'u le ti bangu cu nandu .i lonu bacru lo tonga kei pe la guaspis. nandu .i la guaspis. vasru xa tonga --((UserPagePlasticRaven|Plastic Raven))


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