From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 05 16:04:57 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbkML-00025K-K4 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:57 -0700 Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.156]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KbkMI-000258-O5 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:57 -0700 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so409417yxp.46 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=PDZVI1+jLiDUMO2hRrlp5pbwAvQGHGsqOlXP/GPAlyg=; b=He5fzqCfxhBqQhLfiyicWVyO6vuGy+X90DWUwSGs9Fl1WGyZk7wdn5AU4J+o96wek7 mqAgs0tMQ3xwVjgoSpXdqz0ciF/Tql4meoOdo3izLEk+AB6eXxs5afFtqi8X6148jXpE daokeoDwcGDg/QQEeiTMqnWQIUHsqqAw2oA0c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=clCeHwMSNquiYOdnvQSCFkNDdHPHgtP6EEBVziEZfRoxp0sCOGgYFPavCXUozh8/2c P85byOG5DOwffB5ddqG7B+POgtZ1owjqbd1lTSpnu/n2U9lj7INFbvLWnIbSQqeLAyYp NFIDEBhiHmjBw2NC8J8B5030GpFwIIv+xGdGU= Received: by 10.151.26.12 with SMTP id d12mr17250657ybj.246.1220655893746; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.199.20 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30809051604w686071aetec61ac634dcc16dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:04:53 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: How to spread the word In-Reply-To: <1220648242.3538.15.camel@tulcod-desky> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1220648242.3538.15.camel@tulcod-desky> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14703 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 15:57, Auke Booij wrote: > Lojban, with all its properties, would be a > very good language in such an environment, because it further forces you > to form a definition of everything you're talknig about, resulting in > better science. As someone who does not speak fluently, or even all that well, but who has actually studied most of Lojban in depth, I find the idea that Lojban would have any major advantages for scientific articles to be dubious. Language is simply not a roadblock in communication in science, except insofar as there is more than one language in the world. And while I think Lojban would be a great candidate for an interlingua, that's really a completely separate argument. I wonder if you could be more specific about how you see English (or German) falling down as a language for scientific discourse. How is science materially harmed by the disadvantages English has compared to Lojban? Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) 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.