From pycyn@aol.com Wed Jul 18 07:38:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 18 Jul 2001 14:38:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 93822 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2001 14:37:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Jul 2001 14:37:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d02.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.34) by mta1 with SMTP; 18 Jul 2001 14:37:32 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d02.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.7.) id r.ac.17df7d62 (4420) for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:37:29 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_ac.17df7d62.2886f929_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8720 --part1_ac.17df7d62.2886f929_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/18/2001 1:03:08 AM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes: > You seem to be saying that you can get everything offered by the > experience of driving a car by staring at the car's blueprints long > enough. Do you suppose a car that feels great to drive could be improved > by the ideas of people that never themselves drove it? > This is a really lousy analogy. The answer to the final question is pretty clearly "Yes," as has been demonstrated over the 100+ years of automotive history, so that side of the analogy goes out. The other side would be to ask whether you would be happier in a car designed by someone who could read blueprints or someone who only an a sensitive butt for the comfort of the ride. Happily, for the most part the designers of Lojban are also among its better speakers/writers/users. Whether they live/think in Lojban is unclear, but probably irrelevant, since Lojban has no life aside from the language itself and thus does not really present the possibilities such idioms usually intend for natural languages. --part1_ac.17df7d62.2886f929_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/18/2001 1:03:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:


You seem to be saying that you can get everything offered by the
experience of driving a car by staring at the car's blueprints long
enough. Do you suppose a car that feels great to drive could be improved
by the ideas of people that never themselves drove it?


This is a really lousy analogy.  The answer to the final question is pretty
clearly "Yes," as has been demonstrated over the 100+ years of automotive
history, so that side of the analogy goes out.  The other side would be to
ask whether you would be happier in a car designed by someone who could read
blueprints or someone who only an a sensitive butt for the comfort of the
ride.  Happily, for the most part the designers of Lojban are also among its
better speakers/writers/users.  Whether they live/think in Lojban is unclear,
but probably irrelevant, since Lojban has no life aside from the language
itself and thus does not really present the possibilities such idioms  
usually intend for natural languages. --part1_ac.17df7d62.2886f929_boundary--