From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Fri May 19 00:53:30 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14225 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 07:53:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 May 2000 07:53:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO argo.bas.bg) (195.96.224.7) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 May 2000 07:53:29 -0000 Received: from banmatpc.math.bas.bg (root@banmatpc.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.2]) by argo.bas.bg (8.10.1/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) with ESMTP id e4J7rJn10242 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:53:21 +0300 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA32314 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:53:18 +0300 Message-ID: <3924F31A.74E@math.bas.bg> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:54:02 +0300 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Lojban List Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: Shqip References: <4.2.2.20000518154817.00ac0420@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 04:54 AM 05/18/2000 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > >Lojban is not suitable for representing Vulcan because > >1. it is too obviously terrestrial (evolved in the wrong ocean) > > So is Klingon. But not in the same way, nor to the same extent. The words of Lojban (all of the gismu and some of the cmavo) have been generated with the express purpose of resembling words with appropriate meanings of the six largest Terran languages. In the design of Klingon such similarity has been avoided just as purposefully. There are Okrand's little jokes, and a good many malglico in the canon, so if one wants to expose Klingon as a humbug, one can; but it is not such an obvious Terran conlang as Lojban is. --Ivan