Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkvZl-0002yT-9V for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:48:13 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net ([68.230.240.46]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IkvZj-0002yE-5f for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:48:12 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao104.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20071025054804.TQZA1395.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:48:04 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 4Vnx1Y00G3y5FKc0000000; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:47:59 -0400 Message-ID: <47202E00.3040000@lojban.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:47:44 -0400 From: Robert LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome References: <2204fa080710241504x4784f740n559fad67f6504056@mail.gmail.com> <71550650710241529q450b70ecn428050e75e6b58b1@mail.gmail.com> <8905c87a0710241646k258db02av554206eded586e11@mail.gmail.com> <200710242131.53655.phma@phma.optus.nu> <8905c87a0710241842h36070025tf625d14918ae8f41@mail.gmail.com> <97f5058c0710241850n14512f0ai2b214c0c39a63b03@mail.gmail.com> <2204fa080710241901k4b916a9t3d930b02ea7ed103@mail.gmail.com> <2204fa080710241906l70ef354i6f1ff6d9aa0e42d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2204fa080710241906l70ef354i6f1ff6d9aa0e42d9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5597 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 776 Jared Angell wrote: > "The v and s aren't allowed together; they're a voiced-unvoiced > consonant pair. They must either be separated with a y, or a > different rafsi be selected." > > If Lojban is being allowed to evolve like a natural language than who cares? Someone who values the fact that Lojban is different than natural languages, such as yourself, would be likely to resist evolutionary changes that make it more like natural languages. Since there would be few people learning Lojban if they did not value at least *some* of the differences from other languages, the resistance against naturalizing the language is extremely strong, except where the inherent (and perhaps subconscious) nature of language is capable of overwhelming our desires. lojbab