[lojban-beginners] Re: some questions

["Jared Angell" <angell.jared@gmail.com>]

Thanks!!!

I wonder how many world 'problems' would  be 'solved' if everyone thought in the unambiguous manner forced upon someone by Lojban.

On 10/20/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/20/07, Jared Angell <angell.jared@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone here think in Lojban, and if so what is that like?

Not easily. I can think of two or three people who can achieve it from
time to time with great effort. But the plain fact is that it would
require practice in real-time communication rather than reading and
writing. Because there are so few Lojbanists, all of whom are
connected over the internet when they are connected at all, at this
time there are few opportunities to use Lojban in a way that
cultivates thinking in it.

> Wouldn't it be fairly easy to write a piece of software to translate Lojban
> texts into English?

http://www.lojban.org/jboski translates Lojban into an English gloss.
However, this is not proper English-- that would require solving the
problem of a computer understanding how to formulate proper English
sentences.

> Why is it that it is so difficult to translate texts into Lojban? My
> understanding is that it is...

Because Lojban is extremely alien. It's grammatical concepts and
structures have never existed in any naturally-occurring language.

> Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single word is
> Lojban damn near impossible????

Difficult perhaps, for some. But it has been proven to be possible.
Most gismu follow a predictable place-structure pattern so they don't
have to all be memorized.

-Eppcott

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