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Then I suppose I should revise my qualification
to “it depends on the purpose of the practicality you are trying for.”
It is true that it isn’t likely to become practical as a “spoken
language” until people actually start speaking it. But it seems to work
well enough for written conversation (although it is still somewhat slow for
the most part), and would be even better if more people practiced more. From:
lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Jared Angell http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/practical On 10/21/07, From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org
[mailto:
lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On
Behalf Of Jared Angell It sounds to me like this language will not be
practical until several of us congregate together and start speaking it and
teaching it to kids. I think it depends on
what you mean by "practical". So long as you're on the internet while
communicating, it is easy to look up definitions as you write, and if you know
where to look, you can find information to help you make any grammatical
construct the language has. Some of the trickier ones might take some work
making them work properly, but sometimes that can even happen in a person's
native language. But such a community as you have described would be good for
getting lojban to be thought of more as a "speaking language" rather
than only as a "writing language". mu'omi'e .skaryzgik.
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