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>PC doesn't actually speak Lojban.
>He also believes that Lojban is not sufficiently precise in this
>arena.

i u'isai la lojban satci lo banzunai ma .i zo'o ciska lo lujlu'adi'u lo lunra lo dikydemgu'i 

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Not precise enough for what? Engraving a maze on the moon with a laser?

>It also terminates the topic in a topic-comment sentence, like "lo
>zdani zo'u mi klama" == "The house: I go", which mirrors Chinese
>sentence structure, apparently.

I like the Chinese usage. In Supermemo I will over write "end prenex" with "on the topic of the preceding, the following sentence is true." That's good enough for starters.
-la .epcat

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