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The copyright feuds belong to an earlier era, when the original Lojban founders forked the language. Things are a lot more open now, and there is a degree of co

• schoen 11y ago
  I think Lojban also subsequently ran some software to produce some kind of similarity score for creating vocabulary similar to the most-spoken languages. For example https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bangu#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bangu#Etymology I don't know whether the original Loglan project to do this relied only on human creativity or also on software (and whether Lojban used a human editorial step after the software step). https://mw.lojban.org/papri/gismu_etymology https://mw.lojban.org/papri/gismu_etymology http://www.lojban.org/old-style/publications/etymology.html http://www.lojban.org/old-style/publications/etymology.html
  • DougMerritt 11y ago
    > I don't know whether the original Loglan project to do this relied only on human creativity or also on software (and whether Lojban used a human editorial step after the software step). I no longer recall whether Loglan used software for its derivations, but it hardly matters -- both Loglan and Lojban had very similar goals and methods here (although naturally Lojban always tried to improve on the forerunner, Loglan). I encouraged Lojban to normalize to something that could be handled by yacc(1). That turned out to be complicated, although I recall that that goal was at least nominally met.