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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:27:25 +0200
From: Goran Topic <amadan@ibm.net>
Subject: tecu'u la lojbab. gi'e loi drata
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Translation follows.


ni'o .ui nu mi klama lo surstu kei bavlamdei
.i ba limna joi pilselgu'i joi surla bo co'e
gi'e .u'u.uuse'i claxu le skami vau fa mi
.i nalzvati masti

ni'o mi xenru co banske naldju co dukse doi lojbab.
.iku'i le ca me mi le pu me mi lo ni ke'a djuno ku zmadu
.i la lojban. cu drata bangu nunfrica selzu'e selfi'i
.i lo'enu cipra la sidbrsapiruorf. cu ralmu'i tu'a ly.
.ipau ri sedu'o le te frica ka'exu jai nibli da pe loi remna rarna bo
bangu kampu
.i ledu'u lo'e rafsi nunjo'e be mi cu rarna cu selji'i mi
.isejupau le la'ede'u nu nibli cu saske xamgu xu
.i pe'i lenu jarco ledu'u loi remna rarna bo bangu la lojban. lo'e
nunjvofi'i ca'a panra keiji'a sarcu tu'a lo'e nunskexau
.iku'i ka'e jarco .inaja so'ocu'o pe'i ke logji se zukte fa lenu pilno
lo selfi'i bangu vauvau pei
.i mi geirgei zo'o fau lo'enu ko mi bitygau ledu'u mi srera
.i cinri

co'o mi'e. goran. fa'o

























I'm going on my holidays tomorrow, there'll be swimming, and sunbathing,
and other leisurely activities... and I'll miss my computer :(
I'll be gone for a month.

I regret my still insufficient command of linguistics, lojbab, but
still, I know more than I did before... :) The goal in creating lojban
was to make a language which would be different from other languages.
The principal motive for its development was testing the Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis.
Keeping that in mind, can lojban be used for deducing the universals of
natural human languages? Despite the fact that stringing rafsi feels
very natural to me, would such a deduction be scientifically solid,
acceptable?
To make an acceptable scientific argument, I think it would be necessary
to show the parallelism between the compounding mechanisms in lojban and
natural languages. If you can do that, though, why need lojban?
Convince me I'm wrong and I'll be very happy. I find it an interesting
subject.