Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199804150908.FAA12002@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: questions X-To: rsnylander@earthlink.net X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: c7d615a30d111ee695f4f1e1f6593a8e Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Apr 22 12:10:41 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - >D.H.Rosdeitcher wrote: >> >> Hi. Recently I got interested in learning lojban and I have questions for >> anyone here who'd like to share information. >> > >coi David. I'm relativly new to this too, but since no one else has >ventured to answer you, I'll do what I can. I prefer to let others like you try to answer, Rick, since my role as leader makes me obviously a biased source. >> Does lojban really help clarify communication and thinking? >> > >Some people may has opinions, but my impression is that no one speaks >fluently enough to decide. I agree, though it seems that the attempt toexpress things in Lojban forces people to think about what they mean a bit more than in English. The counter argument though is that this is proabably true whenever you try to speak moderately precisely in a second language. lojbab