No, but the author of the article claimed that you can see "bits of different languages in them", which you can't. Neither morphemes nor phonemes are preserved, only letters. The method for creating these words make it probable that there will be at least one letter in the lojban word in common with the word in the six original languages, but there seems to be no guarantee that the letter or letters in common are from the actual root of the word, which are the
important letters of the word.
Therefore, the way the root words in Lojban are constructed does not make the learning of words easier for the largest number of people, it just makes it really difficult for everyone.
Take your example of "klama". I can see that it shares "l" and "a" with "travel", but how do you construct a mnemonic for remembering it? It shares no morphemes and no phonemes with "travel", and there's no phonological resemblance either, so there's nothing to help you learn it if you are an English speaker, you just have to memorize it as-is.
I'm sure there are many other features of Lojban that are interesting, and I'm sure that compound words in Lojban are pretty easy to learn and construct, but the text I quoted from the article about root words shows a complete lack of understanding of how human languages work and grow and evolve.
Therefore, the way the root words in Lojban are constructed does not make the learning of words easier for the largest number of people, it just makes it really difficult for everyone.
Take your example of "klama". I can see that it shares "l" and "a" with "travel", but how do you construct a mnemonic for remembering it? It shares no morphemes and no phonemes with "travel", and there's no phonological resemblance either, so there's nothing to help you learn it if you are an English speaker, you just have to memorize it as-is.
I'm sure there are many other features of Lojban that are interesting, and I'm sure that compound words in Lojban are pretty easy to learn and construct, but the text I quoted from the article about root words shows a complete lack of understanding of how human languages work and grow and evolve.