From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Mar 18 10:12:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 70737 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2005 18:11:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2005 18:11:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2005 18:11:59 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DCLwr-0003EI-FT for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:49 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1DCLwc-0003Ds-CU; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:37 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DCLwQ-0003Dg-Qg for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:22 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DCLwQ-0003DZ-OY for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:22 -0800 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:11:22 -0800 Message-ID: <20050318181122.GL26000@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <44275d07f070dd249c78acf2c8fd2536@xahlee.org> <012501c52bcd$08e877f0$7800020a@PICKLEWOMAN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <012501c52bcd$08e877f0$7800020a@PICKLEWOMAN> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-archive-position: 9607 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 X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: lojban ills: implicit emphasis X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23969 On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Even if one found another logical-language-structure that was > fundamentally better than Lojban, I still suspect it would take a > lot of effort to "tune" it into a really workable language (which > so far as I can tell, Lojban *just barely* is, in spite of all the > work that's gone into it...) Any justification for that last bit? -Robin, who has written almost 30K words in Lojban in the last 3 months. -- 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/