From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Feb 27 15:29:49 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AwrQT-0006X6-EA for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:29:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:29:49 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20040227232948.GA1544@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040227201711.GE15105@miranda.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 539 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:35:50PM -0600, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote: > These syntactically senseless sentences are possible in English and > Spanish, and I seem to recall that they're possible in Swahili as well > (although my Swahili is quite rusty). I suspect that they are > possible in any natural language. I think you're confused about the word 'possible'. "mi co klama gerku" is completely invalid Lojban. It is invalid in exactly the same way (in terms of being a syntactic invalidity) that "I die you" is invalid in English. However, it's still just a series of sounds, so it is of course *possible* to say it. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui