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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:21:22 -0500
From: SwiftRain <swiftrain@geocities.com>
Subject: lojbo cinmo
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"Jorge J. Llambías" wrote:
> 
> So I don't understand why people say that Lojban can in any way
> limit Lojbanist's way of thinking or expressing themselves.
 
perhaps it is not so much lojban itself, but our conception of lojban as
a "logical language," that limits it. 
 
just a few moments ago, i thought (bau la lojban): 
 
"sampu fa le nu mi do .iu tavla ca le nu mi do na tavla" 
 - it's simple to talk to you (doi lo prami pendo be mi do'u) when i am
not talking to you. 
 
so lojban certainly did not stop me from having that thought!  but then
i thought: wait, can i say that in lojban?  it's a contradiction!  i
FEEL like in logical lojban i should say satci what i mean: which is
that it *seems* like it would be simple when i am not doing it, but it
is not in fact. 
 
.iesai mi djuno le du'u zasti fa zo sa'enai 
.iku'i le cinmo na ka'e ciksi 
co'o mi'e bret.