From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Nov 13 17:33:58 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjnBE-0005fF-3C for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:33:40 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GjnBD-0005f5-N3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:33:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:33:39 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" rule Message-ID: <20061114013339.GB24729@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <325816428.20061113190842@mail.ru> <20061113171203.GD24729@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4558B5C3.9020006@kli.org> <87d57rxf3v.fsf@gmail.com> <4558E2A1.9010907@lojban.org> <4558F43D.4070601@kli.org> <45591BFC.7080808@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45591BFC.7080808@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13136 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 Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:29:32PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > The la rule isn't required with standard (spaces included) > orthography, and without a speaking community. When we have a > skilled speaking community, we can find out whether la in names in > the spoken language causes problems for humans - after all, humans > can parse English and other human languages successfully, and they > aren't audiovisually isomorphic. So it's OK to leave a rule that people will often violate because people can deal with that sort of thing? That's just... It's like you *want* to kill Lojban. I want a language that will *actually* have audio-visual isomorphism. In practice. With real people. You, if the above is to be believed, don't actually care about that. -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.