From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Oct 20 11:27:31 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJ2o-0004OZ-S5 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:27:31 -0700 Received: from anno.name ([81.169.186.62] helo=mail.anno.name) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJ2l-0004OG-TM for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:27:30 -0700 Received: from [192.168.178.20] (p5085D718.dip.t-dialin.net [80.133.215.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.anno.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846B4B4DC6 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <471A4889.7030804@perpetuum-immobile.de> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:27:21 +0200 From: Timo Paulssen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: some questions References: <2204fa080710200633i681486e4l234f44613140eb5e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2204fa080710200633i681486e4l234f44613140eb5e@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: id=21E90840 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB8420F9527426EFE2C9C1BF7" X-Spam-Score: 1.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: 16 X-Spam-Bar: + X-archive-position: 5510 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB8420F9527426EFE2C9C1BF7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jared Angell schrieb: > Can anyone here think in Lojban, and if so what is that like? if you mean have the in-your-head-thinking-voice speak lojban, wenn, yes, i've done that a couple of times. for example while standing in the shower :) > Would anyone agree with me that Lojban follows the rules of General=20 > Semantics? don't know what that is. > Wouldn't it be fairly easy to write a piece of software to translate=20 > Lojban texts into English? already done as eppcott told you before. > Why is it that it is so difficult to translate texts into Lojban? My=20 > understanding is that it is... english (and most other languages) are oftentimes hard to parse and concepts usually don't transfer 1:1 from natlang to lojban. > Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single wor= d=20 > is Lojban damn near impossible???? not hard, no. as eppcott pointed out most place structures are pretty predictable and they are pretty learnable as well. - Timo --------------enigB8420F9527426EFE2C9C1BF7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGkiKus6NTCHpCEARAoYlAJoCTddyQ4nU2GRGWHUR7A6DVzblmgCeMyD/ UFb2OfoRkXH6/wZp+Ximz2I= =bR1R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB8420F9527426EFE2C9C1BF7--