From xah@xahlee.org Fri Jan 28 00:37:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: xah@xahlee.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 23097 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2005 08:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2005 08:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xahlee.org) (206.130.99.40) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2005 08:37:06 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (c-24-6-51-57.client.comcast.net [24.6.51.57]) (authenticated) by xahlee.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j0S8aia13615; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:36:44 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:37:12 -0800 To: Robin Lee Powell X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 206.130.99.40 From: xah lee Subject: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=139458407 X-Yahoo-Profile: p0lyglut X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23747 > (i don't think lojban is ever suitable for human communication as > with natural languages. > Do you have any basis for that opinion? essentially that humans are not logical machines.... in any natural situation communication far outruns any logical concern... employing body language, context, situational... and perhaps the actual literal content in speech plays only some 10% of all thins communicated. In emergency, love affairs, power play, ... any situation... all these things are happening implicitly, even among you the reader and me right at this moment. The only exception is say idol chat among linguists inside sealed ivy towers (as the case of online lojban chat or in this forum.). so in natural settings, lojban will be broken as soon as it is used for real... just as people constant break English. As soon as some usage becomes standard, people will break it, creating slangs, new words... etc., vast majority will not even catch on or be recorded. (and one can see this in online forums) ... and Black people will have their style of all sorts...diction, intonation, accent... and in the way people speak or write will also show social caste ... etc. ... sorry for rambling. Will have to write these out into an essay someday to be cogent. Xah On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:24:04PM -0800, xah lee wrote: > > Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> If a minimal Lojban includes tanru, you *must* have one or the >> other, or you lose expressive power. As it seems to me that the >> goas here is to produce a Kernel Language for Lojban (that is, >> the most minimal set of Lojban from which all the rest of Lojban >> can be described as just shortcuts), you don't want to lose >> expressive power. > > Robin described my mind... I'm a genius! The Human Level AI problem is solved! *speaking from offstage* What? Oh. Nevermind. > (i don't think lojban is ever suitable for human communication as > with natural languages. Erm. Those of us on IRC seem to do just fine. Do you have any basis for that opinion? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/