Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t3FLV-0000ZWC; Thu, 12 Oct 95 06:34 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id D6013F4A ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 5:34:17 +0100 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:21:50 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: lo lerfu me'e zo y'y a zo y'y.bu X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 767 Lines: 18 Jorge: > la and la mark,l di'e spuda > > > I admire the rafsi principle, which is elegantly & beautifully > > > expressed in Lojban. > > Even allowing for intersubjective variability, I find such sentiments > > incredible. > I agree that if there is something inelegant and ugly about Lojban > it is the lujvo morphology, but I thought you were an admirer of the > baroque. I am, but not in the design of grammars. There are bits of baroquery in Lojban that I like, e.g. delimiters for {zoi} and {lao}, but the charm of these is that they represent the best solution to the problem they solve, and are baroque through being uncompromising. In contrast, Lojban morphology is rather like the Soviet economy: the outcome of numerous rational but bad decisions. --- And