Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

Ray Brown scripsit:

> >Lojban has about 2000, and it certainly could be leaner if
> >the words were shorter; Lojban has somewhat less,
>
> ? Is one of the Lojbans intended to be Loglan?
The second one.

> Just out of interest - How was decided what the list basic morphemes
> should be in Lojban?  (I don't mean the derivation algorithm for
> deriving the morphemes from the 7 (?) input natlangs - but the list
> of actual meanings that needed to be morphematized).
I don't know, and it's possible that nobody living really understands it.
We know that a couple of lists, including Basic English and possibly
the Swadesh list, got stirred into the pot, but James Cooke Brown
probably took the details to his grave.  Lots of words were added later
as one-offs.  Lojban removed a few from its copy of the list because
they seemed over-specific ("olive", "billiards", "mushroom" as opposed to
"fungus"), and a very few were added to Lojban at the end.  The Gua\spi
list contains the whole Loglan list with no removals plus some but not
all of the Lojban additions.

I'll post to the Lojban list and try to find out.

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