From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Aug 10 15:58:46 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BufZn-0002JO-5p for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:58:39 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:58:39 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: benefits of separation between semantics and grammar Message-ID: <20040810225839.GI30673@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8403 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 Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:03:29AM -0000, jfm3jfm3jfm3 wrote: > Hello. > > .u'u I'm not ready to post in Lojban yet. I'm still in awe of it. > > Lojban has unambiguous grammar. That is, we need not correctly guess > the meaning of an utterance to understand how the utterance parses. Right. > This is obviously useful when talking to machines, but the literature > I've read so far suggests that the engineers of Lojban were more > interested in unambiguous grammar because of its implications in light > of the SWH. Yep. > Is this still important to the Lojban community? It's not terribly important to me. > Are there any Lojban speakers who can think quickly in Lojban? I can think slowly in Lojban. :-) > Does it make a difference? Yes. > Are there other benefits to be reaped from unambiguous grammar, aside > from talking to machines simply and thinking clearly? I have no idea. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"