From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 02 12:01:04 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HNDw6-0006ax-9U for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:01:04 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HNDvv-0006aj-TE for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:00:59 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 32so808833ugm for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:00:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=R+2xzvmi0/vZ/MhbdEXKcUwLi1msa18I9gcBTCuC2CJQdkSRh36dJVaZwAQfzqU9pxdZcZUq59U5HtGFcyEUKwGUVrEpwH2vL/72o1K4KampIGSD/v+IDw4o85tnk7JofyaQEt43epm4IHDrC6yOub93z0txOwkXiSAbLH/8M7g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=sySsbS21Cq0hCAdo3NGQSyGhXmhGfyGvCaR+6Agrz8PCf4qnRgRm4cSlesTT0afFG/ZNhK8Sy0xAHDADbdF+MjWMcyu9BipfCR1nWv1FRwNdk2WPj0R+1PLCg73J8oAUdo78vUHIXGYQlE+p7POpqpmwlb4zCtVe03AeHGjhwDg= Received: by 10.78.149.13 with SMTP id w13mr309110hud.1172865627925; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.39.8 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:00:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:00:27 -0800 From: "Theodore Reed" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban In-Reply-To: <20070302170025.D3A8A7E02@bender.tigertech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_68457_6748728.1172865627659" References: <20070302062820.1AD667DD1@bender.tigertech.net> <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7BF9@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> <20070302170025.D3A8A7E02@bender.tigertech.net> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4090 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ted.reed@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_68457_6748728.1172865627659 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 3/2/07, Carl Lumma wrote: > > Then I really miss periods and capitalization for parsing > sentences visually. As a somewhat prolific user of lojban, I feel I should point out that there are plenty of languages that get by without these, and that, for myself, I find that things like {.i}, {lo}, and {cu} become every bit as useful for parsing sentences visually. ({.i} is usually the first thing I see when I look at a stream of lojban, gadri are a close second.) I strongly suspect that this is bias on your part for the language you grew up with. -- Theodore Reed (treed/bancus) www.surreality.us ------=_Part_68457_6748728.1172865627659 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 3/2/07, Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org> wrote:
Then I really miss periods and capitalization for parsing
sentences visually.

As a somewhat prolific user of lojban, I feel I should point out that there are plenty of languages that get by without these, and that, for myself, I find that things like {.i}, {lo}, and {cu} become every bit as useful for parsing sentences visually. ({.i} is usually the first thing I see when I look at a stream of lojban, gadri are a close second.)

I strongly suspect that this is bias on your part for the language you grew up with.

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Theodore Reed (treed/bancus)
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