Re: Previous post, more examples..

JS Bangs scripsit:

> This is a good point.  In fact, I'd be really curious to see if a lang
> could be designed to both have taxonomic/descriptive vocabulary and
> necessary redundancy. An interesting project . . .
Sure it could.  The theory of error-detecting and -correcting codes is
well understood.  Lojban uses this in a small way in its gismu (primitive
content words): no two of them differ only in the final vowel, nor do
the consonant parts differ solely in a single phonological feature.
For example, since "gismu" is the language, "gisma" is ruled out, and
so is "gisnu".

But adding error-detection (still less error-correction) to a Ro-type
language would make the long words even longer.

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