From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 17 13:34:09 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kg3iz-0001vF-LW for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:09 -0700 Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([208.80.142.18]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kg3iv-0001u7-Pm for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (silene.metacarta.com [208.80.142.18]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5942614C809A for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from silene.metacarta.com ([208.80.142.18]) by localhost (silene.metacarta.com [208.80.142.18]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25718-06 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [208.80.142.173] (isolation.metacarta.com [208.80.142.173]) by silene.metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB47F14C8094 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48D169B6.9060205@ropine.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:33:58 -0400 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14eol (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: How many fluent speakrs of Lojban are there? References: <975a94850809132244tdf5f00fm941ba3703635da34@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30809161756x2b7d69d8l5874e9b6b36e2e66@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at metacarta.com X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14770 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Brett Williams wrote: > True enough, but I personally think that Lojban is an exceptional > language for art. It's so flexible, there's so many options for things. I think Lojban actually has more interesting potential as an "artistic" language than a "logical" language. Lojbanists praise the language's unambiguousness, but human beings are so good at resolving ambiguous messages that I'm not sure the lack of ambiguity gives Lojban much power. But the breadth of tenses, aspects, attitudinals, etc., seems to truly distinguish Lojban from natural languages. 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.