X-Digest-Num: 200 Message-ID: <44114.200.1086.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:24:28 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Subject: Re: tecu'u la lojbab. gi'e loi drata X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1086 Content-Length: 2512 Lines: 86 At 08:27 PM 7/28/99 +0200, Goran Topic wrote: >From: Goran Topic > >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. mi cpedu lenu la nitcion cu spuda semu'i lenu ri djunymau mi'e lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.