Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:50:45 -0500 (EST)
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From: David Barton <dlb@WASH.INMET.COM>
Subject:      Re: machine translation
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Geoff writes:

   Fair enough, but then why learn a whole new language to do what existing
   languages can already do?

Because Lojban is spoken, as other language (CycL, Z notation, LSL,
PVS, etc.) are not.


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