Re: CONLANG: Lojban etymologies

[pardoej@lonnds.ml.com (Julian Pardoe LADS LDN X1428)]

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995 Lojbab <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET> wrote:
> The Lojban etymology files, duly annotated, but showing only the
> Lojbanized forms of the source language words, were going to be put in
> the draft dictionary, but probably will not be for space considerations
> (50 pages is hard to justify for something so few people will actually
> use except to satisfy their curiosity.

I'm not sure it's just curiosity.  I'm sure that for many people
knowing the etymology of a word will help them remember its form.

-- jP --