From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 20 22:24:32 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FsvCJ-00049q-5G for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:15 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FsvCG-00049f-8h for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:14 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so41285nfa for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eRNSU9BjflKuB5o7W2vYgYLGVkA7XSwpnKKzfc5rY1jc1E255rB4Rb1wQDoT5hpTGzJy8Pgx4h3SsKy86OO3UOsMQp1F8CKh6PPS2I2yZ7V7870IWXQ2owx8VH560gSVdMKJz6g1omQoPWSThY3CbB6TtCL0L8YPSGn6594yf2s= Received: by 10.48.229.20 with SMTP id b20mr183242nfh; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.92.1 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30606202224o343f520ax965acb6410a7014f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:24:13 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ambiguity in lojban In-Reply-To: <1944521421.20060621113235@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f30606202005v6737ce2cw7f779ba5e102c579@mail.gmail.com> <1944521421.20060621113235@mail.ru> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 11814 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 6/20/06, Yanis Batura wrote: > I think no one has ever pretended that Lojban can 10 times ease the > understanding of the language by a machine. I think some of the older texts did imply that Lojban would be a *big* help in machine language comprehension. I haven't seen anyone really advocate this recently, though. I bet it's been many years since this position has really been plausible--maybe in the early 90s it was much more defensible. But I wanted to throw it in there anyway. :-) Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.