From fracture@allusion.net Tue Apr 06 18:48:08 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41] helo=ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BB2Ac-0001OF-Fe for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:48:02 -0700 Received: from fracture (cs24349-133.austin.rr.com [24.243.49.133]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id i371lxHv002065 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:47:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: by fracture (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:03:30 -0500 From: "Jordan DeLong" Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:03:30 -0500 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan." Message-ID: <20040407020330.GA56476@allusion.net> References: <20040406213137.GR5197@digitalkingdom.org> <20040406215404.47239.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040406215404.47239.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-archive-position: 7468 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: fracture@allusion.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:28:03PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > > But the main advantage is the reduction in useless proliferation of > > > selma'o.=20 > >=20 > > Not useless; it's already been shown that the proliferation allows > > eliding of a syllable in a very, very common case, which seems important > > to me. >=20 > To me it is better if you just have to learn one pattern [...] But isn't that kinda not the lojban way? Lojban takes the approach that it's better to learn more if it gives you more power. In this case, you spend a little to learn a little more up front, and in return get to save syllables in the common cases later. Let's leave "ease of learning" goal for the billion wanna-be interlangs out there, no? --=20 Jordan DeLong fracture@allusion.net --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAc2FxDrrilS51AZ8RAsANAKC+VpePEskByyzDYufRPWK5B5W9ewCeN77n HIwtycqF4+sYJu6JRGYbmmM= =ztj4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--