From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Nov 03 10:12:19 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EXjZT-0003xm-A7 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:19 -0800 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EXjZJ-0003xW-MR for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:19 -0800 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id g2so113392nfe for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=dHAJ8ujaGUxB0kJFCawUTZ4ImKim7ER4um3jyLoT/lquJH80W/2bhu0SSey+lU1O4w14Fr0i06oYdAGmpi3Y79Hhcoj8Ul9vytmZKiNuoT73UqjGsHwRLmHgr7kOSs+4Zc/sJ4uUUYlIFPmuLd4hWCzeLFwn0wz44RgYJ1xdndo= Received: by 10.48.127.19 with SMTP id z19mr480243nfc; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.65? ( [62.203.110.10]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id g1sm1050473nfe.2005.11.03.10.12.03; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <20051103174746.GQ24389@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <26506d300511030415j48a05aefm@mail.gmail.com> <20051103174746.GQ24389@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0704EC8C-FCA8-4137-BF37-D569320D3135@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Thomas White Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How 'natural' a language? Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:11:59 +0100 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2471 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: winterwhite9257@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners .uacai.u'icai. .i pe'u ko do djuno le mi ckire Your point has been made, loud and clear :) fe'omi'e tomys. On Nov 3, 2005, at 06:47 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:15:06PM +0100, Thomas White wrote: > .i coi ro do > > Quick warning, the following contains content that may not appeal > to all readers. > > Forgive the nature of this question, but I'm sure I can't be the > only one to have thought of it: How 'natural' a language is lojban > if there are no swear words or insults? > .i ko malgletu lo xasli doi toldrani tolmencre -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/