conlanging/auxlang thought: what if you just made a pidgin of all the world's major languages/language families by smashing everything together, and then developed a more defined grammar and phonology from that
@woozle I'm pretty sure Lojban is a priori and more meant to be as unambiguous as possible than it is to be used as an auxlang, per se?
@Thaminga All I remember (and this is second-hand, too) is that the process of creating it involved some kind of database of semantically-significant phonemes from all sorts of languages, which were then chosen from at random...
Ahh, here -- Wikipedia: "...created algorithmically by searching for sound patterns in words with similar meanings in world languages and by multiplying those sound patterns by the number of speakers of those languages." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
@Thaminga Isn't that basically Lojban?