From jexom@free.fr Mon Jan 31 13:03:41 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.29]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cvihm-0000mE-5Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:03:30 -0800 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0212.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3B8721C0023A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:02:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (APuteaux-153-1-52-60.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.124.138.60]) by mwinf0212.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1033D1C00239 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:02:59 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050131210259664.1033D1C00239@mwinf0212.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <7D7B620D-736A-11D9-AC09-000A95C58224@xahlee.org> References: <41FD5D13.8060109@cox.net> <7D7B620D-736A-11D9-AC09-000A95C58224@xahlee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis From: jexOm. Subject: [lojban] Re: [lojban] Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:02:45 +0100 To: lojban-list@lojban.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-archive-position: 9390 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jexOm@free.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Le 31 janv. 05, à 10:28, xah lee a écrit : > natural languages don't come with a design committee. They 'break' or > evolve and basically nobody cares except a few academic pundits. On this point only... Natural languages are not always that "natural". Actually, Turkish and Hebrew are somewhat artificial languages as they have gone through a major planned revision during the last century. And an "artificial" language like Esperanto (100 years old this year) has become somewhat "natural". So, the boudaries are a bit fuzzy. My 0.00€, Jérôme.