Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 02:28:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711120728.CAA27219@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Ironic Use of Attitudinals X-To: rnylander@DTSI.COM X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 561 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Nov 12 02:28:16 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >I have read that someone on this list (I think it's lojbab) actually >speaks lojban in a monotone so as to avoid injecting cultural dependent >aspects (e.g. attitudinals). I assume this is true. (lojbab - 'fess-up. >Do you confirm or deny?) I HAVE done so, but do not generally do so, in order to make the very points that you and I have been arguing for, in teaching the language. Moreover, a computer speaking Lojban will not be speaking the language with any emotional inflection, and yet needs to be able to express the entirety of the language. lojbab