From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 28 18:04:27 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk7Bb-0007h5-2y for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:27 -0700 Received: from pop06.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([207.69.200.40]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk7BY-0007gx-JH for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:27 -0700 Received: from user-1121uuk.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.251.212] helo=[192.168.0.191]) by pop06.mail.atl.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Kk7BX-00042X-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:04:23 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages From: Robert Slaughter To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20080929010016.GM6912@digitalkingdom.org> References: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> <20080929010016.GM6912@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-ajHm5Tx7sTGP9TlgoHYE" Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:04:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1222650262.14121.7.camel@thomas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14806 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rslau@mindspring.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --=-ajHm5Tx7sTGP9TlgoHYE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 18:00 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote: > > I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe > > a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as > > much as a cumbersome grammar does. > > It sure as hell bugs *me*, and I'm pretty logically minded. > > The only nice thing about Japanese is the regular verb conjugation > and the lack of noun conjugation (I can't remember what it's called > with nouns). > Declension :) > -Robin > -- Bob Slaughter, rslauGUESS@WHATmindspring.com http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/ North Georgia Modurail: http://www.trainweb.org/northgamodurail/ In which language of the world does the word 'taxi' mean "I cannot drive"? --=-ajHm5Tx7sTGP9TlgoHYE Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 18:00 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: 
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote:
> I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe
> a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as
> much as a cumbersome grammar does. 

It sure as hell bugs *me*, and I'm pretty logically minded.

The only nice thing about Japanese is the regular verb conjugation
and the lack of noun conjugation (I can't remember what it's called
with nouns).
Declension :)

-Robin


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Bob Slaughter, rslauGUESS@WHATmindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~rslau/
North Georgia Modurail: http://www.trainweb.org/northgamodurail/
In which language of the world does the word 'taxi' mean "I cannot drive"?
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