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Mike S. scripsit: > We don't really have the words yet. Out of the 1342 gismu, only 647 yield > unique stems in Xorban. Of the others, 283 can be retained, and 412 will > have to be reassigned (assuming we kept the list as-is). At the same time, > perhaps 50-100 will be chosen for reduced CC form, and an unknown number of > other needed predicates, probably 100-200, will be coming in from the cmavo > list (nearly 100 have rafsi). Then there will be probably at least 500 (my > conservative minimum rough guess) gaps and simple concepts that Lojban > covers with lujvo that we might as well coin basic predicates for to round > things out while we're looking at this. Essentially, we will be reforging > the lexicon from scratch before this is over. And that would just give us > a bare-bones vocabulary of 2000 predicates or so, hardly an OED of conlang > vocabularies. Indeed, but Lojban gismu are tightly constrained by phonotactic rules that don't exist in Xorban. With 18 consonants, there are 18^3 = 5382 regular predicates, way more than enough. Even if we exclude stems like mmm-, mmp-, and pmm-, there are still 5202 available. -- John Cowan cowan@hidden.email http://ccil.org/~cowan The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. --Edsger Dijkstra