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Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 15:16:08 +0200
From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>
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From: Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>

Extracts from a couple of my responses to postings on the AUXLANG
list - any comments?

>
> *   This attempt to specify meanings to the n-th degree is one
feature that
> makes Lojban hard for humans to use.  Our mental apparatus is not
designed
> to recognise - at conversational pace - all of the distinctions in
meaning
> that Lojban offers.
>     IF, and I only say "if", language is supposed to echo human
thought,
> then I believe that the way Glosa realises the fuzziness in
thinking is
> closer to the neuro-linguistic truth than is the precision of
Lojban.

Quite possibly - I don't know enough about Glosa to judge.  The
principle in
Lojban is that you can be as precise _or vague_ as you want to be.
I admit that
Lojban is harder to learn than most constructed languages, but it's
still easier
than most natlangs.  I'm not sure how easy or difficult Lojban would
be to process
at a conversational speed, since I only ever communicate in Lojban
by e-mail.
What I imagine is that in conversation people would tend to ignore
those features
of Lojban which enhance precision, and utilise those which ease
communication
(e.g. the attitudinal indicators).

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> To me, Lojban is more of a lawyer's recipe for quibbling
>   whereas Glosa is the nice simple list of labels.
>

.oi zo'ope'i ganai la lojban ba ve tavla gi le flasmuni co'u jerna
[ouch!] [humour-opinion] if Lojban [future] be-spoken the
law-interpreter cease
earn-money

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ta'o Does Lojban have any other word for lawyer?

co'o mi'e robin.


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