From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Sep 28 18:18:47 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk7PT-0008De-Ej for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:47 -0700 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.230]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk7PO-0008D7-Jg for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:47 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c37so874942wra.26 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:41 -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=iIn2RhDuBvwsW7ON7E86ehClL2cwM8q651CGxQ2DXxs=; b=S4HAAw+dgJ49Q0AdhMj0OJcBcanGm9qH5rIrTsLYPuHULyGhR1obQKW2j4V/7bKwwN 3Cv3tThXTLHsWpE26xU3w05OAV6ObrK7AQeC55XlfCosxG5nRsfJ4pLllB1bi58WJ0hW 9vItKSaPapYJQ8xD+e5J2q8PRjwFUsM7m6Dec= 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=TA5EOg0Zo6yZ5AlxcZmTYHv71N9nDRJbmqgwPKjPZPfe0mTGE6/YMJJ16HXsEtbxsE UQJZx25X7THAm7ayy76I+WQTuYQCpFM/pLZBGGnHiuGIfl8BihTvkgs5XGxkJ2XX3FHk c6zL9ocIGeVHHtV/6JCJ9TA7/Yw0N3/jz/GIk= Received: by 10.151.144.15 with SMTP id w15mr6841650ybn.40.1222651121318; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.199.20 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30809281818l21932d45m8cdd1f7f81feade4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:18:41 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: eastern languages In-Reply-To: <20080929010016.GM6912@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f30809281608q6eb27b84y80de3a442e56761@mail.gmail.com> <20080929010016.GM6912@digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14807 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 Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 20:00, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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. Well, I mean native speakers. If you were brought up bilingually with Japanese and English equally emphasized, which would you think is more beautiful? > 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). Spanish tends to be much more regular, but at the cost of having a bunch more verb forms. Still not as nice as 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.