Ok, I must have been misinformed or forgot...I read about the algorithm before I really got into this.
But my point stands. On 10/26/07, Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 26 October 2007 18:03, Jared Angell wrote: > > Alternatively perhaps Lojban should not have been made in this way. > > Perhaps using Esperanto, English, Latin, Japanese or perhaps a mixture > of > > them all to get root (irrespective of how difficult it would have made > some > > word formation to say the human mind tends to fix these things with > > ::shutter:: irregularities - which are going to happen in Lojban if > people > > actually ever get around to speaking it in large masses) words would > have > > been better than using a really cool computer algorithm that derived > root > > from the most widely spoken languages (HOW IN THE HELL DID HINDI GET > LEFT > > OFF THAT LIST, BTW????). > > It didn't. Hindi and Urdu were counted together. > > The six languages (not necessarily in order) are English, Chinese, > Hindi/Urdu, > Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. Some Spanish words with "ue" were used with > "o" > instead (es:puerta=pt:porta=fr:porte), and most of the Chinese "o"s were > used > as "e". > > Pierre > > > > -- Jared "There is no emotion, there is peace; there is no ignorance, there is knowledge; there is no passion, there is serenity; there is no death, there is the Universe" "Work smart when you can and hard if you must" "When a system is corrupt then it's time for a reformat" "Open Source: The light side of computing. It's never too late to join"
