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Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban ills: implicit emphasis
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> Even if one found another logical-language-structure that was
> fundamentally better than Lojban, I still suspect it would take a
> lot of effort to "tune" it into a really workable language (which
> so far as I can tell, Lojban *just barely* is, in spite of all the
> work that's gone into it...)

Any justification for that last bit?

-Robin, who has written almost 30K words in Lojban in the last 3
months.

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