Re: Lojban

Ceqli <rmay@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Indeed!  Thanks.  I currently have about that many morphemes in Ceqli,
>and feel like I need many, many more.  I presume that a lot of my
>morphemes so far are compounds in Lojban. Is the count about the same
>for guaspi and Loglan?

I cannot answer any questions about guaspi.

TLI Loglan is tricky, because JCB added a variety of borrowings in
prim-space, and others proposed ones that JCB neither adopted nor
rejected, but did allow to be published in The Loglanist (we can
assume them effectively rejected since few in the community know about
them - one has to read 25 year old TL issues to find them).

He also has some prims with "declensions" - his culture words change
in meaning depending on the final letter, and so one ahs to decide
whether they are one morpheme per culture (with three common suffixes
each) or three morphemes each culture.

However one decides this, I suspect that his count ends up about the
same as ours, or possibly somewhat smaller.  We also have more "little
words".  But TLI Loglan is never baselined, so there could be more
added (or subtracted) any time the powers that be choose to do so.

lojbab