/ideas/ - Ideas

RE: la zbalermorna Third Official Master Ref (kmir)

kmir — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:03:29 +0000

Final version with documentation is here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0aL1oAS_j4yZjZKa3ZYYUNUdnVZdHdEMW5pMGdJUQ/edit?pli=1#

Sorry it took so damn long. I get distracted :P

A similar game (la tsani)

la tsani — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:51:15 +0000

la nikle gerku is perhaps the oldest lojban word game. It involves making a story around a fictional "nickle dog", but it's very unlike a word ladder. Also, in general, no two gismu differ only in one letter (there are a few exceptions). Another, slightly less famous game is vlalinkei, the word-chain-game. Words are said one after the other by the players to form the most complicated sentence, in an attempt to form both an interesting story, but also to trip up other players. With more skilled lojbanists, this game becomes extremely hard to win at.

Re: gismu ladders (M1n1f1g)

M1n1f1g — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:09:44 +0000

A problem is that no two gismu are distinguished by last letter only, so this would have to stay the same.

There are about 2300 English four-letter words, whilst Lojban only has about 1300 gismu (an average of 260 sharing a common final letter). This would make loi jbovlaserti quite difficult.

gismu ladders (Anonymous)

Anonymous — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:01:49 +0000

For a while now I have been thinking about how gismu are related to one-another, in a very typographical sense. Has any work been done towards finding the links between gismu that are only one edit away from each other?

I understand that the links between the words would not contain anything meaningful, I just think it's slightly interesting.

RE: la zbalermorna Third Official Master Ref (Anonymous)

Anonymous — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:41:31 +0000

Where is version 4?

RE: Impossible sounds (Anonymous)

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:18:51 +0000

I think the point is not to support all possible sounds but to only support ones that are found in most of the largest languages and that don't sound similar. That is, not having uncommon sounds is a feature, not a bug.

RE: jbopomofo orthography (YH)

YH — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:39:59 +0000

Plus, there's a mistake in this alphabet - the Chinese e (ㄜ) is different from the Lojban e, but more similar to Lojban y. A more accurate one should be as follow:
a ㄚ
e ㄝ
i ㄧ
o ㄛ
u ㄨ
y ㄜ

RE: Yet another script (lukys)

lukys — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:06:15 +0000

>>638
It appears you can upload supposedly non-supported files, so here's that document.
If you don't have a font that supports many Unicode characters, la'e la'e zoi gy. http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=91&L=1 gy. is a good one.

RE: Yet another script (lukys)

lukys — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:04:43 +0000

Yet another script (lukys)

lukys — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:04:02 +0000

This one was crafted with the notion of simplicity at mind. The letters are designed so that they are one stroke each. I have made an .odt file with some Unicode approximations I have found. They are overall pretty close to what I had in mind.
The vowels are a bit unique. They are made by drawing the lines adjacent or tangent (depending on whether it's on a corner or not) to the specific vowel on the IPA vowels chart and circling the vowel.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowels_chart_with_audio).
Please let me know what you think.

Here is the .odt file, and I will produce a .doc file on request:
http://www.2shared.com/file/5XjOerYq/lukys_script.html