Received: from access2.digex.net by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA20344 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:13:13 -0500 Received: by access2.digex.net id AA19349 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for lojbab); Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:13:08 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199412221613.AA19349@access2.digex.net> Subject: terseness (was: ago) To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:13:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199412220643.AA04569@nfs2.digex.net> from "Gerald Koenig" at Dec 21, 94 10:41:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 595 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Dec 22 11:13:15 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la djer. cusku di'e > I > believe that for lojban to be more than a toy, it must equal the best > languages of the world in conciseness as well as exceeding them in > precision and consistency. It is hard for me to believe that there are > unbeatable tradeoffs here. Optimization can produce a language with the > best of both worlds. We are at the beginning. Either we do it or > another language will be spawned. To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want English, you know where to find it." -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.