Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:56:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710271756.MAA18038@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: HACKER G N Sender: Lojban list From: HACKER G N Subject: Re: APL & Lojban X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <0EIP00IRY3L3IT@newcastle.edu.au> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 774 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Oct 27 12:57:04 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Irene Gates wrote: > la .iVAN. cusku di'e > > > I think the > regularity > > is a real one: my appreciation of APL and of Lojban share the same source > -- > > a liking for the unusual plus a fondness of conciseness. > > .a'a .a'u .ie Yes, I'm still here, I saw this thread, and only an acute > lack of time prevented me from chiming in. I did give it some thought, > though, and came to the same conclusion that Ivan did, although pe'i su'a > Lojban is only really concise when it comes to the attitudinals and things. > I concur. If I recall correctly from one of the versions of the refgram, one of the early motivations for the attitudinals and discursives was to provide a more lightweight representation of common abstractions. co'o mi'e djef