Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 28 Jul 1993 16:24:36 -0400 Received: from odin.diku.dk by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 28 Jul 1993 16:24:33 -0400 Received: from localhost by odin.diku.dk with SMTP id AA10188 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for rauch-erik@yale.edu); Wed, 28 Jul 93 22:24:30 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 22:24:30 +0200 Message-Id: <9307281949.AA03154@grebyn.com> Comment: Issues related to constructed languages Originator: conlang@diku.dk Errors-To: thorinn@diku.dk Reply-To: conlang@diku.dk Sender: conlang@diku.dk Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group) To: rauch-erik Subject: Re: Written Conlang Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Ukn Jul 28 16:24:38 1993 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@grebyn.com Actually there has already evolved considerably different styles in written Lojban from the styles used in the rather more limited examples of spoken Lojban. The latter is of course more forgiving of error, uses simpler constructs, and a whole bunch of other traits that you'd have to know the language for me to describe effectively. But modulo some amount of error correcting that each person tolerates in the different media, the Lojban grammar and wordlists describe a superset of both 'languages'. lojbab