Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 06:28 PM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:

> Ray Brown scripsit:
[snip]

> The Loglans, therefore, have long recognized the necessity of borrowing
> in one way or another, since the best names for these things are either
> the names used by international agreement where such agreement exists,
> or the names used by the people most closely concerned.
which is another argument against the BrScA model.  With a closed maximum
set
free morphemes, it becomes tricky.  It would have problems not dissimilar
to
those Mandarin Chinese experiences in dealing with borrowings.

BrScB probably gives more flexibity.

> One can hardly
> write such a simple sentence as "Mahogany trees grow on the island of
> Borneo"
Proper names must be accommodated and, hopefully, without too much
mangling.

> without introducing them: one might be able to find a compound
> that can be deciphered as "mahogany",
or have a separate morpheme for it as, I'm sure Classical Yiklamu has
.
> but what is one to do with Borneo?
See above.

[snip]
>> (What's Classical Yiklamu's word list?)
>
> It's the WordNet semantic list, which currently contains about 100,000
> terms.
Yep, I was looking at Classical Yiklamu earlier today.  I guess when Mark
compiled his vocabulary, it had quite reached 100 000 as he gives the
CY lexicon as something over 90 000.

> This list was also used by xuxuxi,
Is it, indeed?  I was wondring if something between the paucity of
Speedwords
and the exuberance of CY (and xuxuxi) might not be better - say around
40 200 to 40 300?

> which is basically WordNet
> vocabulary, AllNoun grammar,
? I thought you said it was an auxlang (tho admittedly an 'unorthodox' one)
.
AllNoun grammar is certainly unusual for an auxlang  :)

> and a unique phonology.
John, you post mails saying "Test, please ignore", thereby inviting people
to open it.  Now you finish an email with "an a unique phonology" (period!
).
You darn well know that of all matters linguistic, phonology interests me
probably more than all others!

You gotta let me know before it drives me crazy (or should I say crazier?)
what this unique phonology is  :-)

Ray
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