From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue Apr 06 20:36:42 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41903.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.154]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BB3rg-0003Na-Ma for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:36:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20040407033605.31989.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.69.6.38] by web41903.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:36:05 PDT Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:36:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan." To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040407020330.GA56476@allusion.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7471 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:54:04PM -0700, Jorge Llambías wrote: > > 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. But saving a syllable here and there is not that much power. The ability to use names as brivla gives you a lot more expressive power: ro djan poi mi djuno cu xabju le merko Every John I know lives in the US. > Let's leave "ease of learning" goal for the billion wanna-be > interlangs out there, no? It's not the main virtue of Lojban, I agree, but why make it difficult for no good reason? mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/