X-Digest-Num: 71 Message-ID: <44114.71.395.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:22:57 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban] X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 395 Content-Length: 561 Lines: 18 xod wrote: > Can you give me an example of a statement which can be made in some other > language (English, I hope) but not in Lojban, because Lojban is based in > predicate logic, but English isn't? Ambiguous English sentences can't be rendered into Lojban with the ambiguity intact: see the beginning of Chapter 16. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)