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To: "Arthur W. Protin Jr." (GC-ACCURATE) <protin@pica.army.mil>
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Subject: First attempts
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 91 16:11:23 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 11:03:29 -0400
From: Arthur Hyun <cbmvax!uunet!rpi.edu!ash>
Status: RO
X-From-Space-Date: Sat Apr 13 12:10:09 1991
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>Folks,
>    I wish to comment on the posting of  Arthur Hyun <ash@rpi.edu>
> [ deletions ]
>I am sorry he missed it but the distinct advantage that lojban has over
>English is covered in the first two or three lessons!

I see very clearly several advantages that lojban has over English,
however, I nevertheless feel unable to take advantage of it.  For
example, I will take two fairly complex English sentences from the 
previous mailings as examples:

>>   My primary interest in lojban is the study of the structure and
>> the syntax of it, not in learning to speak to anyone with it. 

>I don't have time right now to try and make explicit what it is that he
>missed, but to help him and others has anybody updated JCB's example
>of the 17 different groupings of "a pretty, little, girl's school"
>and can we use the English examples that show the difficulty expressing
>comparable groupings (without violating his copyright)?

Although I fully admit that I am able to express *similar* meanings to
either of the above sentences, I am unable to transliterate them for the
simple reason that I have no knowledge of any logical connectives.

I do not doubt the power of expression in lojban; I merely lack the tools
to use it satisfactorily.
						cheers,
						arthur