From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Sep 29 07:44:36 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJzI-0002YF-Lg for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:36 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com ([209.85.217.19]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KkJzB-0002XF-4l for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:36 -0700 Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so11413027gxk.10 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+JKeZ2vKc+Sbm/MJgYwLCzVCZLFf24dm98XL73Wm4gY=; b=ElCpV/ptGr1+tJ3VPMCk5ZoLbYsj3wztIk5M561mT/1WKzg9pFkJRUdA0jyad8HOm3 hFkhwLFvMCdLjWhi+xL3zFJMxC0O1yFa7y7nu8M80fl9kmfBccptlgKIPqUn2PrFsOE8 yvByCXNi6dI3P1WQOXiMig3R6PF2Pd4yKhe9I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=aX4Ej0DVD24AQWtagWJAlFv3kE/RD4qfdZuIUJgJtGkankusEVFWr4LkVrfbxquaZn Mm3ncB85f4co/YHnEj6j+yvCL74MqoMlc6pTQNXHZj4gnwERpV3LRdOgAdk+vol2n/eS b1xWEl+JjP8tvox6HTmj+wkroaD4rL1vuSaTA= Received: by 10.90.92.14 with SMTP id p14mr5671366agb.89.1222699462975; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.84.19 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5627810d0809290744r47b15c35s99376573933c257c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:44:22 -0400 From: "Donald McLean" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Do you agree with this guy? In-Reply-To: <6E2DF1575F3F2043AC2E1E8E56C5853D0BE6E3FB@emss02m20.us.lmco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2f91285f0809260303n6ca54185h148d26128e42efea@mail.gmail.com> <20080926214417.GT11841@digitalkingdom.org> <20080928172857.GD2447@nvg.org> <5627810d0809281627p47b23218r86a27b588541cfa7@mail.gmail.com> <20080929004947.GJ6912@digitalkingdom.org> <6E2DF1575F3F2043AC2E1E8E56C5853D0BE6E3FB@emss02m20.us.lmco.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 896 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: dmclean62@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners I've used quite a few languages in my career and studied quite a few more but Prolog is not on either list. The reality of Lojban is that it is still intended to be a human language. While there are no spelling, pronunciation or grammar issues to worry about, aren't there still issues with assumed or implied content? Probably not unsolvable, but still issues that would require a more sophisticated interface (AI). Donald On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Rostowfske, Luke J wrote: > 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.