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[lojban-beginners] Re: some questions



Jared Angell schrieb:
> Can anyone here think in Lojban, and if so what is that like?
if you mean have the in-your-head-thinking-voice speak lojban, wenn,
yes, i've done that a couple of times. for example while standing in the
shower :)

> Would anyone agree with me that Lojban follows the rules of General 
> Semantics?
don't know what that is.

> Wouldn't it be fairly easy to write a piece of software to translate 
> Lojban texts into English?
already done as eppcott told you before.

> Why is it that it is so difficult to translate texts into Lojban? My 
> understanding is that it is...
english (and most other languages) are oftentimes hard to parse and
concepts usually don't transfer 1:1 from natlang to lojban.

> Also...isn't keeping track of the place structures for every single word 
> is Lojban damn near impossible????
not hard, no. as eppcott pointed out most place structures are pretty
predictable and they are pretty learnable as well.
  - Timo

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