From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 28 18:00:16 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk77Y-0007B6-H3 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:00:16 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk77Y-0007Az-EB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:00:16 -0700 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:00:16 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages Message-ID: <20080929010016.GM6912@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 14805 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 Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Chris Capel wrote: > I mean, Japan's othography system(s) scares me to death, but maybe > a cumbersome orthography doesn't bug a logically-minded person as > much as a cumbersome grammar does. It sure as hell bugs *me*, and I'm pretty logically minded. The only nice thing about Japanese is the regular verb conjugation and the lack of noun conjugation (I can't remember what it's called with nouns). -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.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.