From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Nov 09 17:10:45 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKuY-0008Un-RP for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKuY-0008Ug-HV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" in names Message-ID: <20061110011026.GD23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20061109041814.GE23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4553388D.6030007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4553388D.6030007@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13018 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:17:49AM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > When a computer starts parsing your speech stream and makes > mistakes because you stuck a la in there, ***then and only then*** > will we find out whether people can overcome the bad habit of > slipping up on the la rule. If you truly believe that, then you've just admitted that Lojban is not a language that can be spoken by humans, to humans, or at least not solely. If that's the case, we might as well give up now. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ 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.