Return-Path: <@SEGATE.SUNET.SE:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sOpRH-0000YjC; Thu, 22 Jun 95 19:49 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 2EC7A1E4 ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:33:50 +0200 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, X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199506220830.EAA17819@locke.ccil.org> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Jun 21, 95 07:19:47 pm Content-Length: 659 Lines: 19 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.