On Aug 30, 10:18 pm, Dana Nutter \ deinx nxtxr
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> li [Bob LeChevalier] mi tulis la ...
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> > Ceqli <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >Indeed! Thanks. I currently have about that many morphemes in
Ceqli,
> > >and feel like I need many, many more. I presume that a lot of my
> > >morphemes so far are compounds in Lojban. Is the count about the same
> > >for guaspi and Loglan?
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> > I cannot answer any questions about guaspi.
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> > TLI Loglan is tricky, because JCB added a variety of borrowings in
> > prim-space, and others proposed ones that JCB neither adopted nor
> > rejected, but did allow to be published in The Loglanist (we can
> > assume them effectively rejected since few in the community know about
> > them - one has to read 25 year old TL issues to find them).
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> > He also has some prims with "declensions" - his culture words change
> > in meaning depending on the final letter, and so one ahs to decide
> > whether they are one morpheme per culture (with three common suffixes
> > each) or three morphemes each culture.
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> > However one decides this, I suspect that his count ends up about the
> > same as ours, or possibly somewhat smaller. We also have more "little
> > words". But TLI Loglan is never baselined, so there could be more
> > added (or subtracted) any time the powers that be choose to do so.
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> > lojbab
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> Rex,
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> I know i've mentioned this before, but try downloading
> Lojban's gismu list from their site. They are the best source
> of semantic primes that I've found so far.
> deinx nxtxr
The Lojban gismu list is a good starting point, but as a source of
semantic primes it leaves a lot to be desired. There are many gaps
and overlaps in the gismu list. Lujvo and fu'ivla are used to
overcome this shortcoming.
For real semantic primes, see Anna Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic
Metalanguage, which has about 62 'words'.
stevo
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