From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Nov 09 17:36:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 9880 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2006 01:29:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Nov 2006 01:29:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2006 01:29:00 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKvV-000050-QO for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:11:25 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKuz-0008V7-SP; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:57 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKuY-0008Un-RP for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GiKuY-0008Ug-HV for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:10:26 -0800 Message-ID: <20061110011026.GD23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20061109041814.GE23121@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4553388D.6030007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4553388D.6030007@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-archive-position: 13018 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -3.1 (---) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "la" in names X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=DXBAPMvkwkSV65cLP3Pu1v_WBiZAgrCDwuVFeT872n1kMoZQag X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 27459 On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:17:49AM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > When a computer starts parsing your speech stream and makes > mistakes because you stuck a la in there, ***then and only then*** > will we find out whether people can overcome the bad habit of > slipping up on the la rule. If you truly believe that, then you've just admitted that Lojban is not a language that can be spoken by humans, to humans, or at least not solely. If that's the case, we might as well give up now. -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/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.