Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 20:34:43 -0800 (PST)
From: karis <comcaresvcs@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban's Biggest Problem or Why Still Nobody Speaks It
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I'm sorry everyone, but I disagree that Lojban needs us to every increase t=
he vocabulary. One of the highlights of the language its the small vocabula=
ry and the fact that you can express anything as precisely or imprecisely a=
s you want. Nothing says that every idea has to be a single short word. Thi=
s certainly isn't the case in English. Why must Lojban have a single short =
word for traffic light when English doesn't? If it was so hard to express e=
motions and many other things in Lojban than how could there be beautiful p=
oetry other literature written in or translated into it using just the basi=
c vocabulary and rafsi? Look up the writings of Athlestan and various other=
 materials from the 1990s. I even translated a poem I wrote in High School =
into it without anything but gismu. Not everything needs to be in the short=
est form. If it did we would all use, "sad, mad,and glad" rather than "exci=
ted, overjoyed, pleased, frustrated, angry, furious, tearful, miserable, or=
 down in the dumps."=20

.karis. (Karen Stein)

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