From araizen@newmail.net Wed Apr 10 08:41:36 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 10 Apr 2002 15:41:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 45304 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2002 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Apr 2002 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mxout2.netvision.net.il) (194.90.9.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Apr 2002 15:41:23 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer ([62.0.182.52]) by mxout2.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built Sep 5 2001)) with SMTP id <0GUC009EUZKQJ7@mxout2.netvision.net.il> for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:41:22 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:40:26 +0200 Subject: Re: [lojban] [davidbrin@cts.com: Re: lojban story.] To: lojban list Message-id: <09e301c1e0ae$844db120$e5b7003e@oemcomputer> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <20020405182833.GB15975@digitalkingdom.org> From: Adam Raizen X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=3063669 X-Yahoo-Profile: araizen X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13960 la deivid. brin. cusku di'e > Oh... you should note that the translated "Toujours Voir" took up 388 words > in lojban when the original took 250 in English. So the mother tongue is > still efficient! No one ever advertised Lojban as a compression algorithm. Lojban makes explicit many grammatical and lexical distinctions which are left implicit in English, so it's not surprising that Lojban tends to have more words than English. mu'o mi'e .adam.