On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jorge Llambías
<jjllambias@hidden.email> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Mike S. <
maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Without hashing
> out all the details, I'd like to hold a straw poll:
>
> [Yes] I would like the lexicon to generally break down schematically into
> CC mnemonic clues (in other words, let's reorganize & overhaul the lexicon).
>
> [No] I would like the lexicon to be random/naturalistic like the current
> gismu stems are (in other words, let's just remove the homonyms and add new
> stems as needed, but otherwise import the gismu as they are and as we have
> been using them).
>
> I am looking for your initial reaction and thoughts here, nothing else.
Not necessarily random or naturalistic, but I wouldn't want for
example all the names of animals to share the same CC, or all the
names of colors to share the same CC, and so on. I think that ends up
being more confusing than helpful.
co ma'a xrxe
I don't want (nor am I able) to spell out the whole system before the straw poll is over, but no matter how we get them, the core vocabulary would be 2000-3000 CCC stems. What I was thinking in the schematic approach was that if (say) -t- were assigned to designate life forms (or *maybe* just animals depending on numbers) then "mlt" could stay mlt but "grk" would have to change to "grt" (the "gr" being a "rafsi" from old gerku). The colors though would have to share (say) -r- with many other adjective-like predicates.
JClifford & Selpahi's votes are noted.
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