From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 22 23:30:13 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3562 ; Thu, 22 Jun 95 23:30:12 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 22 Jun 95 16:39:20 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa04712; 22 Jun 95 17:38 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8796; Thu, 22 Jun 95 12:36:51 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2187; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:31:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:32:47 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Lojban a Natural language? / Masses, socks, Julius, To: Lojban List In-Reply-To: <199506220830.EAA17819@locke.ccil.org> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Jun 21, 95 07:19:47 pm Message-ID: <9506221738.aa04712@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R la lojbab. cusku di'e > > That Jorge and Tobar, native speakers of > > Argentinian Spanish and Croatian, have been able to carry on > > indefinitely long conversations in Lojban, la xorxes. cusku di'e > That's Goran, not Tobar, but mixing up names seems to be a Lojban > tradition by now :). More than a tradition, it's part of the definition, since names are assigned by the namer. la tobar. (when lojbab is speaking) is whatever he chooses to call "tobar.", and if it's communicative (which it was), then who can gainsay it? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.