selma'o

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

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Something in one of lojbab's forwardings to conlang set me thinking.  How
many selma'o do we really use regularly?  Obviously not all of them; MEX is
hardly ever used; when was the last time you said ke'e, etc etc.  Several
possible projects can stem from this...

1. try, a priori, to decide on a relatively small set of selma'o and see if
you can work comfortably within it.

2. try, a priori, to minimize the set of selma'o, as small as you can
without getting "too" cramped (subjective judgement).

3. analyze existing texts and see the relative proportions of selma'o in
use (e.g. replace all words with their selma'o and count up totals).

Anyone find these fun?

Let's see, off the top of my head, what selma'o would I really need?

BRODA (of course.  Gismu and counting lujvo), LE, LA, CMENE, NU, PU, A, UI,
NA, NAI, BAI, COI/DOI, PA, ZOI, I, JA, KOhA, SE, FA, GOI, NOI are among the
biggies... sometimes KU, KEI, even KUhO, BE, ... ROI, GOhA,... I'm pretty
sure I missed a couple of really important ones, especially really common
ones that have very few cmavo (like I nearly left out NA and NAI...)

Thoughts?

~mark


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