Re: [bpfk] BPFK work

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:48:55PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> Here's a "real" one then:
> 
> <Broca> ienai .i nanca li re po'o

heh.  Unhelpful.

> (Although I fail to see how my example is any less real just
> because it doesn't come from the corpus. Hopefully you are not
> saying that everything in the corpus is good Lojban either.)

Oh, I don't care if it comes from the corpus; I care that it
resulted from trying to express something for its own sake, rather
than trying to come up with an example for BPFK purposes.

It's too easy to delude yourself about how the language works if you
stick to artificial (in that sense) exaomples.

-Robin

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