From lojban-out@lojban.org Mon Oct 06 17:08:18 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 44398 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 00:08:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m16.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Oct 2003 00:08:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2003 00:08:18 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1A6fOj-00040J-4L for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:08:17 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A6fOI-0003zM-Se; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:07:50 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.22) id 1A6fNk-0003yr-92 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:07:16 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:07:16 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Language evolution Message-ID: <20031007000716.GZ1970@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20031007000135.GX1970@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031007000135.GX1970@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 6349 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20831 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > A language that conveyed all information unambiguously, say Ferrer > i Cancho and Sol?, would have a separate word for every thing, > concept or action it referred to. Such a language would be > formidably complicated for the speaker: the green of grass, for > example, would be represented by a totally different word to the > green of sea, an emerald or an oak leaf. Sorry. If I had read this paragraph before I sent it here, I wouldn't have bothered. What utter tripe. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui