Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

Ray Brown scripsit:

> The phonotactics of my BrSc version A gives the language an upper limit
> of about 2400 morphemes.  If I could be persuaded that was adequate
> (or more than adequate) I'd stick with it.
I think it probably is enough if there is an escape mechanism for including
borrowings:  Lojban has about 2000, and it certainly could be leaner if
the words were shorter; Lojban has somewhat less, and Gua\spi about the
same.  All of these have machinery for borrowing, however.

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