From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 29 07:35:12 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:35:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJqC-00027H-4j for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:35:12 -0700 Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com ([192.35.35.7]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJq8-00026w-12 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:35:11 -0700 Received: from emss09g01.ems.lmco.com (relay6.ems.lmco.com [166.17.13.59])by mailgw3a.lmco.com (LM-6) with ESMTP id m8TEZ6bt003539for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION2-DAEMON.lmco.com by lmco.com (PMDF V6.3-x14 #31428) id <0K7Y00D01OII5L@lmco.com> for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from EMSS02I00.us.lmco.com ([166.29.2.48]) by lmco.com (PMDF V6.3-x14 #31428) with ESMTP id <0K7Y00AVVOIC3Q@lmco.com> for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:35:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from emss02m20.us.lmco.com ([166.29.2.189]) by EMSS02I00.us.lmco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:59 -0600 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:59 -0600 From: "Rostowfske, Luke J" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Do you agree with this guy? In-reply-to: <20080929004947.GJ6912@digitalkingdom.org> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Message-id: <6E2DF1575F3F2043AC2E1E8E56C5853D0BE6E3FB@emss02m20.us.lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thread-Topic: [lojban-beginners] Re: Do you agree with this guy? Thread-Index: AckhzXTdgXLeTFY1ROGwrTmzWYW03wAco6Og Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: References: <2f91285f0809260303n6ca54185h148d26128e42efea@mail.gmail.com> <20080926214417.GT11841@digitalkingdom.org> <20080928172857.GD2447@nvg.org> <5627810d0809281627p47b23218r86a27b588541cfa7@mail.gmail.com> <20080929004947.GJ6912@digitalkingdom.org> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Sep 2008 14:34:59.0996 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D4265C0:01C92240] X-Spam-Score: -8.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: -79 X-Spam-Bar: -------- X-archive-position: 893 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: luke.j.rostowfske@lmco.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I'm wondering if you wrote a prolog-lojban grammar if you could easily teach the computer to speak (lojban) the trick with programming correct grammars they are so diverse, if you had only logical rules then it'd be a simple thing to program all legal combinations of words, or how to express things. If you are into software and lojban, I'd like to know what you think of Prolog. I'm learning prolog, I haven't started Lojban (one thing at a time) but I'm very interested in the potential. Respectfully, Luke -----Original Message----- From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:50 PM To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Do you agree with this guy? Umm. Confuse what two? What are you talking about? -Robin On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:27:51PM -0400, Donald McLean wrote: > I would find it hard to imagine that anyone with any legitimate > programming experience could possibly confuse the two. A Hollywood > scriptwriter might though, I suppose. > > Donald > > [Yes, I'm a professional software developer and no, I'm not terribly > impressed with much of the writing that I see in TV and movies] > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:44:17PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:03:39PM +0200, tijlan wrote: > >> > Is Lojban really more like a computer language than a human > >> > language? Is it too difficult for us humans to learn? > >> > > >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOw-3atOCIA > >> > >> I'm not going to even bother watching it: the answer is no. > >> > >> Ah, my gf has a digital video camera. Maybe I'll post a reply in > >> Lojban. :D > > > > If you do that, I'll write the English subtitles. > > > > (YouTube allows subtitles like Google Video does, right?) > > > -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/