On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:26:59PM -0600, Daniel E Huston wrote:
Although Lojban allows one to phrase statements independent of
context--
so far-- as a stage magician I would still use context. In fact,
that's
a key part of how I would do illusions. The human brain perceives
context as well as detail. That's what makes the illusionist's art
possible. I would argue that even though Lojban may be context-free (&
I'm not convinced that it is), Lojban speakers are not!
Er, the rules of the syntax are (a close approximation of)
context-free,
in a strict computer theoretic way. That is the only sense in which it
is context-free. You're quite right, to understand the meaning of
utterances, you need context.