Date:  Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:20:49 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: Lojban ML: Syllogism and sophism
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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Lionel:
>If Lojban is to be the next step for human or AI languages, it will have to
>add many explanatory footnotes when translating today's little jokes. And
>I'm sure it will create its own puns and logical puzzles, out of reach for
>the current languages.

I can't picture Lojban as a next step for human languages. I'm not
sure either that there was a previous step. I don't know much about
linguistics, but as I understand it there is no evidence of such.
Even the most primitive societies have languages that are as fully
fledged as any.

co'o mi'e xorxes