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Subject: [lojban] Bewildered more than usual
From: "'John E. Clifford' via lojban" <lojban@googlegroups.com>
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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:27:01 -0500
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I am awandering,,so my contacts are sporadic and unreliable, but even assum=
ing I am missing pieces, things don't seem to add up. There are two or thre=
e threads that seem to be related and that don't gel. The program that is t=
o get to the logical forms of sentences get to things seemingly unrelated (=
and much more complex) than the originals.  Apparently this comes from unpa=
cking thins that are logically OK as they stand (the occurrence of {srana} =
seems a giveaway. (I refrain from my rant about the obvious invalidity of m=
ost "translations" of, e.g. {le} phrases.). This nuttiness then leads using=
 things like {voi}, which have no use outsider misunderstanding {le}. And t=
hat then carries over other uses of other words in the same category, mainl=
y uses that should never have arisen -- and probably wouldn't have aside fr=
om the definitions.  Folks, this is a logical language; use the logic rathe=
r than fighting it.  {le broda} is a purely denotative term and so has no r=
elation to brodas and ao {voi} has no role to play. Neither {zs'a} nor KOhA=
 can be used as a basis for a free standing definition since thy are both m=
eaningless and referenceless.
Etc. (losing wifi in 2 minutes).

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