From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Oct 31 03:58:42 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GesFy-0005ri-PA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:58:16 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GesFe-0005rG-1Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:58:13 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so1410238ugr for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:57:50 -0800 (PST) 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:references; b=DsMTNTT1N5lkSB285/q0M6B2biTmUy6jNVfLwTlyDvw4SBnyGWFgxZSzYpB95Muk6koDWd6siumMoILtvo2P8FM7Rxid5zbEmhQprmjze9l3y0ZOwZvpbavD1m/h/NAVaZg0nFDyOXdc/pSauOwav6O0D4B+YJJwtrsH5+kokjs= Received: by 10.66.244.10 with SMTP id r10mr5948555ugh; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:57:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.103.18 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:57:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2d3df92a0610310357v5cf7c4a4g7c768b3a1129eb98@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:50 +0100 From: HeliodoR To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: reform In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_6934_7389392.1162295870044" References: X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) X-archive-position: 12860 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: exitconsole@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_6934_7389392.1162295870044 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > removal of ambiguous gIsmu [...] What's the point in removing words and narrowing the vocabulary? > change fa fe fi, to pa re ci [...] That's quite impossible: {barda fi lo mlatu} means "it's big compared to a cat", whereas {barda ci lo mlatu} means "it's big in the property of three cats" (nonsensical enough). > modify lUjvo to make them unambiguous [...] Um... In what way are they ambiguous? > onomatopoeia, we have to have them, how else can you tell a knock knock > joke.ui.u'i? > You're ready to change the language... to make it appropriate... for knock-knock jokes? O_o > standard way to describe shapes > What do you mean exactly? mu'o mi'e darves ------=_Part_6934_7389392.1162295870044 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
> removal of ambiguous gIsmu [...]
 
What's the point in removing words and narrowing the vocabulary?
 
> change fa fe fi, to pa re ci [...]
 
That's quite impossible:
{barda fi lo mlatu} means "it's big compared to a cat", whereas
{barda ci lo mlatu} means "it's big in the property of three cats" (nonsensical enough).
 
> modify lUjvo to make them unambiguous [...]

Um... In what way are they ambiguous?

onomatopoeia, we have to have them, how else can you tell a knock knock joke.ui.u'i?

You're ready to change the language... to make it appropriate... for knock-knock jokes? O_o

 

standard way to describe shapes

What do you mean exactly?
 
 
mu'o mi'e darves
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