[lojban-beginners] Re: negative-opinion text

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

oh wow.  is this guy serious?  "I supposedly inherited my moderate psionic powers from my
mother's side, and I think she had hers from her father".

Also, while lojban is supposed to be a logical language it is also supposed to be a spoken language ninmu is a word that we use often, we could just as easily say "fetre'a" (fetsi+remna) so in a way his point is moot actually.  "fet" could be the femail "prefix" and "nak" the male "prefix" when constructing lujvo.  Nothing from the lojban way of doing things has to change and we have close to the diversity that this guy is talking about.  fetlan = ewe.

tl;dr:  people need to do a little more research before they rant.

 - Luke Bergen

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:16:40AM -0400, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> Does anyone have the text or a good link for this "negative opinion of
> Lojban":
>

> Magnus Itland believes that a major failing of Lojban is that <A HREF="" href="http://home.online.no/%7Eitlandm/di010307.html" target="_blank">http://home.online.no/~itlandm/di010307.html">it does not
> have completely orthogonal semantics</A><IMG  SRC="" href="http://www.lojban.org/tiki/img/icons/external_link.gif" target="_blank">http://www.lojban.org/tiki/img/icons/external_link.gif" WIDTH="7" HEIGHT="8" BORDER="0" DATASIZE="79">.

The page has moved to http://chaosnode.net/mar01/di010307.html. I've fixed the wiki page.

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