BLANU

ALL OF ENGLISH BLUE [BLU]

1.0 X .28 = .28

BLANU

ALL OF CHINESE LAN

1.0 X .25 = .25

BLANU

1/2 OF HINDI NILA

0.5 X .11 = .06

BLANU

2/7 OF RUSSIAN GALUBOI

0.3 X .10 = .03

BLANU

1/2 OF SPANISH AZUL [ASUL]

0.5 X .09 = .03

BLANU

NO COUNTABLE PORTION OF JAPANESE
AO OR KON

0.0 X .06 = .00

BLANU

2/3 OF FRENCH BLEU [BLU]

0.7 X .06 = .04

BLANU

ALL OF GERMAN BLAU

1.0 X .05 = ,05

TOTAL LEARNABILITY SCORE = 0.76

THE WORD FOR "BLUE" in Loglan is blanu. In the "finding" of this word, words of corresponding meaning from the eight natural languages were respelled in Loglan pho-nemics. Trial words (including blula and lablu as well as blanu} were then assembled from the phonemes in these words, and each was scored according to the system illustrated here. Only the phonemes common to and occTirring in the same order in both the Loglan and the natural word are counted. Since blamu incorporates all of English "blu," it is given the maximum rating of 1 (top right) ; since 28 per cent of the target population speaks English, blanu receives a score of .28 on the English line. Addition of the scores for all eight languages gave blanu the highest "total lenrnability" score of .76. This expresses the probability that a person will learn the word from association with a familiar natural word.