Re: Lingwa de Planeta (LdP) introductory course

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Philip Newton
> On 8/4/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> > Douglas Koller wrote:
> > > I appreciate the efforts to include our Oriental brethren into
an
> > > international language (heretofore not done with similar
> exercises),
> >
> > Not so - it was certainly by Leo Moser in his Acadon project.
> > http://www.acadon.com/
I liked his design criteria and agree with a lot of what is said, but
don't see anything on the language itself.


> And while not strictly an international language/auxlang by design,
> Lojban used Mandarin as one of the base languages for its words.
> (Roughly speaking, vocabulary items were created by writing down a
> word in each of the six(?) base languages and picking the "best"
word
> (that has as many sounds in the same sequence as a given word), with
> languages weighted by number of speakers.)
They don't choose the "best word", but actually form composites by
sort of fusing together the words from the all source languages.  The
idea is apparently to leave hints from each language, not to recreate
precise forms.  There's a detailed explanation of the algorithm used
for creating the words on their website.

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