[lojban-beginners] Re: How versatile is "nu"?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Incidentally, I don't quite understand why "truth value" shouldn't come up
> in conversation once you're using a short term like {jei}, which is
> considerably less cumbersome and IMO more straightforward than the
> alternative, especially in a language which has part of its basis in
> classical logic.

I doubt that the length of a word will have much of an effect on how
often people will talk about what the word denotes. If something is
spoken about a lot, it may happen that it will acquire a short and
convenient word to refer to it, but it seems to me that providing a
short word for something will not really make people want to talk
about it.

As for truth values, they may come up when talking _about_ logic, but
not necessarily when using logic or when talking logically. Also, when
talking about logic you are more likely to talk about truth values in
general, rather than the truth value of a particular proposition, and
"jei" is not very useful for that. Not that I see people talking about
"lo se jetlai" much either. It seems that Lojbanists don't spend much
time talking about logic in Lojban.

mu'o mi'e xorxes