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On 9/3/2014 11:44 AM, 'John E Clifford' via lojban wrote:
> Yup!  If your goal isn't monoparsing, you have no reason to be
> interested in Lojban/Loglan.  If your goal is monoparsing, Lojan/Loglan
> may be the only living option but its success is not proven and, even if
> it were, it does just about everything in the worst possible way.
>
> Let's see how that line of objections, rather than ones to the
> cosmetics, can be met and turned into a positive discussion of Lojban.

I think that there are a few more reasons, though most of them are not 
phrased in academic terms. Certainly, people have BECOME interested in 
Lojban for other reasons and have found their interest to be sustained, 
even as they learned that Lojban isn't hardly a perfect design.

Objections to Lojban should be separated into critiques of the language 
design as a fulfillment of its academic goals, and critiques of the 
design pertaining to its learnability and/or aesthetics.

Since the goal is to produce something that can be linked to by a wiki 
article, I suggest creating a page in the Lojban wiki that addresses 
these criticisms and organizes them in a list (with rebuttals as 
appropriate).

lojbab

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