Re: Lojban

li [Bob LeChevalier] mi tulis la ...

> 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

Rex,

	I know i've mentioned this before, but try downloading
Lojban's gismu list from their site.  They are the best source
of semantic primes that I've found so far.  The schema is very
well thought out.  I'll probably be using it as the starting
point for all my conlangs in the future.  I'm already creating a
dictionary template based on it.


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